Martin Baumeister

Martin Baumeister (born November 3, 1958 in Munich ) is a German historian and has been the director of the German Historical Institute in Rome since 2012 .

Martin Baumeister studied history, German and Hispanic studies in Munich and Madrid. From 1985 to 1989 he was a research assistant at the LMU Munich . In 1992 he received his doctorate in Munich with a socio-historical study on the rural lower classes in the province of Badajoz from 1880 to 1923. From 1992 to 1999 he was a research assistant at the HU Berlin . In 2001 his habilitation followed with an examination of the cultural history of the First World War. From 2002 to 2003 Baumeister was a private lecturer at the HU Berlin. Since 2003 he has been teaching as professor for European history of the 19th and 20th centuries at LMU Munich. In 2010/11 Baumeister was a visiting scientist at the DHI in Rome. Baumeister has been director of the German Historical Institute in Rome since October 2012.

Baumeister's main research areas are the history of religion, historical urban and metropolitan research, the history of the era of the two world wars and fascism , the Mediterranean as a historical region, Italian, Spanish and German history of the 19th and 20th centuries, cultural history, especially the History of popular culture and theater.

Fonts

• War theater. Big city, front and mass culture 1914 to 1918 , Essen 2005.
• Poor “Campesinos”: Survival and Resistance in Extremadura 1880 to 1923. Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-08158-7 Spanish edition: Campesinos sin tierra. Supervivencia y resistencia en Extremadura (1880-1923) , transl . Joaquín Abellán, Madrid 1997.
• Parity and catholic inferiority. Studies on the position of Catholicism in the German Empire , Paderborn a. a. 1987.

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Baumeister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Site of Baumeister at the DHI in Rome
• Site from Baumeister at the LMU Munich