Karl Borromeo Murr

Karl Borromäus Murr (* 1966 ) is a German historian , philosopher and museologist . Since 2009 he has been director of the State Textile and Industry Museum in Augsburg .

Life

Murr graduated in 1989 and 1992, a bachelor -Studies of philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy , and from 1991 to 1997 to study modern history , Bavarian history , medieval history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich . In 1992/93 he was a visiting student at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford , and in 1999 he was a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University . From 1997 to 2002 he worked as a research assistant at the professorship for regional history with special focus on Bavaria at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , before he held the same position at the chair for Bavarian history and comparative national history with special consideration of the modern age at Ludwig until 2005 -Maximilians University Munich acted. In 2005 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the work “The Middle Ages in Modernity. The public memory of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in the Kingdom of Bavaria ”and then became a research assistant at the State Textile and Industry Museum Augsburg , whose director he became in 2009. He has been a member of the Pool of Experts of the European Museum Academy since 2012, board member since 2015 and its chairman since 2019. Murr is a lecturer in European ethnology / folklore at the University of Augsburg .

since 2017: Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the 4th Saxon State Exhibition
since 2019: Member of the University Council of the University of Augsburg

The Middle Ages in modern times: the public memory of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89639-841-3 .
Augsburg - the cradle of Bavarian social democracy: 1864–1870. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89639-841-3 .
Ludwig I .: Kingship of Contradictions Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7917-2416-4 .

Literature by Karl Borromäus Murr in the catalog of the German National Library
Karl Borromäus Murr on the website of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Karl Borromäus Murr on the website of the University of Augsburg

personal data
SURNAME	Murr, Karl Borromeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, philosopher and museologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1966