Benjamin Steiner

Benjamin Steiner (* 1977 ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1997 to 2004 he studied physics and medieval, modern and contemporary history in Munich , Hiram (Ohio) and Paris as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Sorbonne Université and a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . From 2004 to 2007 he was a research assistant for Arndt Brendecke on the sub-project B1 (“Schauplätze des Wissens”) of the Collaborative Research Center 573 “Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Age” at the LMU Munich. After completing his doctorate in 2007 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , he was a Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute , University of London, School of Advanced Study in 2008 as a DAAD Postdoc Fellow. From 2008 to 2009 he was a research assistant to Ulrich Beck and Martin Mulsow on the sub-project C8 ("Modernism as a side effect. Reflexive modernization processes in the early modern era") of the Collaborative Research Center 536 "Reflexive Modernization" at the LMU Munich. From 2009 to 2012 he headed the junior research group “Knowledge and Information about Africa” in the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Goethe University . From 2010 to 2012 he was a lecturer at the historical seminar in Frankfurt am Main (Chair for the History of the Early Modern Age, Luise Schorn-Schütte ). From 2012 to 2013 he was assistant to Luise Schorn-Schütte's chair at the history seminar of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 2013 he represented the W3 professorship for the history of the early modern period (Brendecke) at the LMU Munich. From 2013 to 2014 he represented the Chair of Modern History with special emphasis on the early modern period (Schorn-Schütte) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 2014 to 2016 he represented the professorship for knowledge cultures of modern European times (Mulsow) at the University of Erfurt and was a fellow at the Max Weber College for cultural and social science studies in Erfurt. In 2015 he was a Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris . In 2016 he taught as a visiting professor at the Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale . From 2016 to 2017 he was a fellow at the Cultural Studies College in Konstanz . In 2018 he was a Karl Ferdinand Werner Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris. In 2018 he was a visiting professor at the University of Friborg . From 2018 to 2019 he represented the professorship for the history of the early modern period at the LMU Munich.

His main research interests are the history of global interdependence , the history of Europe in the world, the history of the Atlantic slave economies, the history of France, the history of ideas and knowledge , the history of historiography , the historical sociology and the history of spaces.

Fonts (selection)

• The existentialists. Generational history of a youth movement in Paris after the war . Munich 2004.
• The order of history. Historical tables in the early modern period . Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20227-9 .
• Colbert's Africa. A history of knowledge and encounters in Africa in the age of Ludwig XIV. Munich 2014, ISBN 3-486-76505-1 .
• Side effects in the story. A historical sociology of reflexive modernization . Munich 2015, ISBN 3-11-040474-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Benjamin Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• PD Dr. Benjamin Steiner