Antje Flüchter

Antje Flüchter (-Sheryari) (* 1969 ) is a German historian and professor of early modern times at Bielefeld University .

Life

Antje Flüchter studied Middle and Modern History, Political Science, Geography and Folklore in Freiburg (1989–1991) and Cologne (1992–1997). From 1997 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the chair for the history of the early modern period in Münster, where she also received her doctorate in 2002 (topic: The celibacy between norm and deviance. Church politics and everyday life in Jülich and Berg in the 16th and 17th centuries ) .

After holding a professorship at the University of Zurich, since 2008 she has been Research Group Leader of the project “Cultural Transfer as a Factor of Statebuilding at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University. Here she qualified as a professor on the subject of the diversity of images and the one truth. The statehood of India in the German-speaking perception (1500–1700) and represented Thomas Maissen's chair in the 2012/13 winter semester . 2013–2014 she was Associate Professor of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.

Research and Teaching

Antje Flüchter's research topics are the religious and ecclesiastical history of the early modern period, interwoven history, history of knowledge, gender history and the theory of history.

Works

Monographs

• The celibacy between norm and deviance. Church politics and everyday community life in Jülich and Berg in the 16th and 17th centuries (norm and structure; 25), Cologne 2006.

Editorships

• Structures on the move. Technologies of governance in transcultural encounters. With Susan Richter , Springer 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Antje Flüchter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Antje Flüchter at Bielefeld University