Martin Aust

Martin Aust (* 1971 in Hanover ) is a German historian and university professor .

biography

After graduating from high school , he studied New History, East and Southeast European History and Political Science at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and the Free University of Berlin from 1993 to 1998 . He then received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation as a doctoral student in 1999 and was also a lecturer at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In 2002 he completed his doctorate at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute under Professor Klaus Zernack with a dissertation on aristocratic land disputes in Russia. A study on the change in the neighborhood 1676-1796 from.

He then worked as a research assistant at the Center for Comparative History of Europe in Berlin , before becoming a research assistant at the history seminar at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in October 2002 . There he completed his habilitation in May 2008 .

In the 2010/11 winter semester he was appointed professor at the Chair for the History of Eastern Europe with a focus on the history of East Central Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , and thus took over the position of the successor to Thomas Bohn , who was appointed professor for Eastern European history the Justus Liebig University Giessen accepted. Already in the winter semester 2009/10 he was a substitute for a professorship for Eastern European history as well as in 2010/11 at the University of Regensburg . In the 2015/16 winter semester, Aust, succeeding Dittmar Dahlmann , took up the professorship for the history and culture of Eastern Europe at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

His main research interests include the history of Poland , Ukraine and Russia in modern times , historical comparison, memory history, history of historiography , imperial history and global history .

Works

• Martin Aust: Poland and Russia in the dispute over Ukraine. Competing memories of the wars of the 17th century from 1934 to 2006 ; O. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05927-5 .
• Martin Aust: Noble Land Disputes in Russia. A study on the change in neighborhood relationships 1676-1796 ; O. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 978-3-447-04787-6 .
• Martin Aust: The Russian Revolution. From the tsarist empire to the Soviet empire ; CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70752-0 .
• Martin Aust: The shadows of the empire. Russia since 1991 ; CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73162-4 .

Web links

• Homepage of the University of Bonn
• Homepage of the University of Kiel
• Homepage of the University of Munich
• Homepage of the University of Regensburg