Frithjof Benjamin Schenk

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (* 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian and university professor.

Frithjof Benjamin Schenk studied East and Southeast European History, Modern History and Economics in Marburg , St. Petersburg and Berlin from 1991 to 1998 . In 2002 he became a student of the Free University of Berlin with the work Aleksandr Nevskij in Russian cultural memory , supervised by Klaus Zernack and Étienne François . Historical images and concepts of collective identity 1263–2000 for Dr. phil. PhD . From 2003 to 2009 he was a research assistant and from 2009 to 2010 research assistant and Dilthey Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Department of History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he completed his habilitation in November 2010 with the book Russia's Journey into Modernity. Mobility and social space in the age of the railways . From 2011 to 2015 he was Associate Professor ( Associate Professor ) of East European History and Modern General History at the University of Basel . Since 2015, he has been a full professor of Eastern European History and Modern General History in the History Department of the University of Basel.

Fonts (selection)

• Russia's journey into the modern age. Mobility and social space in the age of the railways. Steiner, Stuttgart 2014.
• Aleksandr Nevsky. Holy - Prince - national hero. A memorial figure in Russian cultural memory (1263–2000). Böhlau, Cologne etc. 2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Frithjof Benjamin Schenk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page by Frithjof Benjamin Schenk on the website of the History Department of the University of Basel