Martin Schulze Wessel

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Martin Schulze Wessel at the opening of the Göttinger Historikertag 2014

Martin Schulze Wessel (born January 9, 1962 in Münster ) is a German historian .

Martin Schulze Wessel studied Modern and Eastern European History and Slavic Studies at the Universities of Munich , Moscow and Berlin . From 1990 to 1995 he worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin . In 1994 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the reception of Prussia in Russia from the 18th to the 20th century. His habilitation took place with the work Revolution and Religious Dissent. The Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox clergy as carriers of religious change in the Bohemian countries and the Habsburg Monarchy and in Russia 1848–1922 . From 2003 to 2011 he headed the historical department of the Eastern European Institute , which has been located in Regensburg since 2007. Since the summer semester 2003, Schulze Wessel has held the chair for the history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , succeeding Edgar Hösch . He is also head of the Collegium Carolinum in Munich and chairman of the board of trustees of the historical college.

In 2008 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences elected Schulze Wessel as a full member of its philosophical-historical class. He is a member of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Commission of Historians , which he chaired from 2006 to 2012. He is the spokesman for the German section of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission. Since 2010 he has been the spokesman for the International Graduate School "Religious Cultures in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries", which is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech national funding institution Grantová Agencyura from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Karls- University of Prague . Together with Ulf Brunnbauer , he is the spokesman for the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, which was launched in December 2012 as part of the Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments at the LMU Munich and the University of Regensburg. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Contemporary History Research (ZZF), the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research . He is editor of the journals Bohemia and Yearbooks of Eastern European History and co-editor of History and Society .

Schulze Wessel was the initiator of the “Conceptual Considerations” supported by the German-Polish Textbook Commission and the German-Czech and German-Slovak Historical Commission for an exhibition on flight and expulsion, which is an alternative to the key issues paper of the “Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation " understand. From the 49th German Historians 'Day in Mainz in 2012 to the 51st German Historians' Day in Hamburg in 2016, he was chairman of the Association of German Historians . Since 2017 he has succeeded Andreas Wirsching as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Historical College in Munich.

His research interests are the religious history of East Central and Eastern Europe, the history of the empires in Eastern Europe, the social history of Russia in the 19th century, the historiography and historical thinking in Russia, the history of East Central Europe, especially the history of the Czech Republic since 1848, as well as the transnational relations between Eastern, Central and Western Europe.

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Monographs

  • Revolution and religious dissent. The Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox clergy as carriers of religious change in the Bohemian countries and in Russia 1848–1922 (= publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 123). Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-486-70662-4 .
  • Russia's view of Prussia. The Polish Question in Diplomacy and the Political Public of the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet State 1697–1947. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91723-3 .
  • The Prague Spring: Departure into a new world. Reclam, Ditzingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-15-011159-8 .

Editorships

  • with Franziska Davies and Michael Brenner: Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (= Religious Cultures in Modern Europe. Vol. 6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-31028-1
  • with Irene Götz and Ekaterina Makhotina: Vilnius. History and memory of a city between cultures. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39308-7 .
  • Nationalization of religion and sacralization of the nation in Eastern Europe , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08665-X .
  • Loyalty in the Czechoslovak Republic: 1918–1938 (= publications of the Collegium Carolinum. Vol. 101). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57587-2 .
  • with Jörg Requate : European public. Transnational communication since the 18th century. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-593-37043-3 .

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SURNAME Schulze Wessel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster