Julia Herzberg

Julia Herzberg (* 1978 in Dresden ) is a German historian .

Life

She studied German, history and Russian in Cologne , Volgograd and Moscow . After completing her doctorate at Bielefeld University in 2010/2011, she worked as a research assistant at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich and, since October 2013, as an academic adviser at the Chair for Modern and Eastern European History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Since October 2016 she has been teaching as a professor for the history of Russia / East Central Europe in the pre-modern era in Munich .

Her main research interests are the history of Russia from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, Russia in the Age of Enlightenment, the history of science, technology and the environment of East Central and Eastern Europe, popular autobiography / biography research , the history of historiography and religious practices.

The newly established professorship focuses on the history of East Central Europe and Russia in the pre-modern era and their embedding in the transeconomic and transcultural history of Europe.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Christoph Schmidt : From we to I. Individual and autobiography in the Tsarist Empire . Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-412-16506-9 .
• as editor with Horst Förster and Martin Zückert: Umweltgeschichte (n). East Central Europe from industrialization to post-socialism . Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-37303-3 .
• Counter archives. Rural autobiography between the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union . Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2136-5 .
• as editor with Christian Kehre and Franziska Torma: Ice and Snow in the Cold War. Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments . New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-78533-986-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV on the DAAD website, accessed on October 23, 2019 (archived version)
2. ↑ Short biography of Julia Herzberg at LMU. Retrieved October 23, 2019
3. ↑ Alignment of the Julia Herzberg professorship at LMU . Retrieved October 23, 2019