Jan Kusber

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Jan Kusber (born March 29, 1966 in Husum ) is a German historian and professor of Eastern European history in Mainz .

From 1986 to 1991 Kusber studied Eastern European History, Slavic Philology and New and Middle History at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , where he also received his doctorate in 1995 . From 1996 to 2002 he was a research assistant at the Seminar for Eastern European History in Kiel, where he completed his habilitation in 2001 . After a time as senior assistant (2002/2003) there, he has been Professor of Eastern European History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2003, succeeding Erwin Oberländer . From 2005 to 2008 he was the founding dean of Faculty 07, from 2006 to 2010 Deputy Spokesman of the Johannes Gutenberg Academy for Young Scientists, and from 2009 to 2011 Deputy Spokesman for the research focus “Historical Cultural Studies”. He was a member and deputy director of the Gutenberg Research College (GFK) (2007–2013) and deputy chairman of the University Council of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2008–2013). He was the first chairman of the Association of Eastern European Historians in Germany (2009–2015) and has been Vice President of the German Society for Eastern European Studies since 2015 . He is co-editor of the year books for the history of Eastern Europe and the historical messages of the Ranke Society .

His publications and lectures focus on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union as well as Poland from the 15th to the 20th century and the history of Latvia.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs
  • Little history of St. Petersburg. Regensburg 2009.
  • Education for the elites and the people in the Tsarist Empire during the 18th and first half of the 19th century. Studies on discourse, legislation and implementation. Stuttgart 2004.
  • War and Revolution in Russia. The military in relation to the economy, autocracy and society. Stuttgart 1997.
Editing
  • with Ivars Ījabs, Ilgvars Misāns, Erwin Oberländer (eds.): Lettland 1918–2018. A century of statehood. Paderborn 2018.
  • with Irene Dingel and Malgorzata Morawiec (eds.): European integration and the churches III. People and contexts. Göttingen 2017 (= publications of the Institute for European History Supplements , 115).
  • with Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Jörn Happel , Heidi Hein-Kircher (eds.): Measuring world. Eastern Europe experts in the 20th century. Berlin 2017 (= Eastern Europe , 67th year, 1–2 / 2017).
  • with Benjamin Conrad and Hans-Christian Maner: Parliamentarians of the German minority in Europe in the interwar period . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-7700-5327-8 .
  • with Anita Prettenthaler-Ziegerhofer , Michael Kißener : Interstices. Close border relations in Europe since the 1970s. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2011.
  • with Rudolf Jaworski : remembering with obstacles. Eastern European memorial days and anniversaries in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Münster u. a. 2011.
  • with Mechthild Dreyer , Jörg Rogge and Andreas Hütig: Historical cultural studies. Positions, Practices and Perspectives. Bielefeld 2010.
  • with Ilja Gerasimov, Aleksandr Semyonov: Empire Speaks out? Languages ​​of Rationalization and Self-Description in the Russian Empire. Leiden 2009.
  • with Andreas Frings: The Tsarist Empire, the year 1905 and its effects. Inventories. Münster u. a. 2007.
  • with Hans-Christian Petersen: New beginning in the west. 60 years of Eastern European research in Mainz. Stuttgart 2007.
  • with Rudolf Jaworski , Ludwig Steindorff : Memorial sites in Eastern Europe. Pasts put to the test. Frankfurt u. a. 2003.
  • with Eckhard Huebner, Peter Nitsche : Russia at the time of Catherine II. Enlightenment, absolutism, pragmatism. Cologne, Vienna 1998.
  • with Eckhard Hübner, Ekkehard Klug : Between Christianization and Europeanization. Contributions to the history of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Stuttgart 1998.
  • with Stefan Conermann: The Mongols in Asia and Europe. Frankfurt 1997.

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