Jürgen Heyde

Jürgen Heyde (* 1965 in Wolfhagen ) is a German historian.

Life

He studied Eastern European history, Slavic and Middle History in Giessen , Mainz , Warsaw and Berlin . From 1991 to 1997 he was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . After completing his doctorate in 1998 at the Free University of Berlin (supervisor: Klaus Zernack ), he was a research assistant at DHI Warsaw from 1998 to 2003 . From 2003 to 2009 he was a research assistant at the Institute for History of the MLU (chair Michael G. Müller ). After his habilitation in December 2009, he was a research assistant at the Institute for History of the MLU from 2010 to 2013 (DFG project - “Own position”: the “ghetto” term in Polish-Jewish historiography and journalism 1868–1918 - and communication history investigation). From 2014 to 2019 he was a research assistant at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe . From 2015 to 2019 he had a DFG project - “Own position”: Ethnic group formation in the pre-modern era. Interculturality and transculturality using the example of the Armenians in Eastern Europe. In March 2016 he was appointed adjunct professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

His main research interests are ethnic relations in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, the history of Poland and Polish-Jewish relations from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, and the history of Northeastern Europe in the Early Modern Era.

Fonts (selection)

• Farmer, estate and royal power. The Estonian peasants in Livonia under Polish and Swedish rule 1561–1650 . Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-412-12499-0 .
• History of Poland . Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-71292-0 .
• Transcultural communication and interdependence. The Jewish economic elite in Poland from the 14th to the 16th centuries . Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10311-4 .
• "The new ghetto"? Space, Knowledge and Jewish Identity in the Long 19th Century . Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3519-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Heyde in the catalog of the German National Library
• apl. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heyde