Prof Dr Dr Hc Heinz Schilling FBA

Born in 1942; Dr. phil.: Dutch Refugees in England and Germany (1971, Freiburg Univ.).; Habilitation: State building and religious conflict (1977, Bielefeld Univ.). - Chair in Early Modern History at Universities of Osnabruck (1977-1982); Gieen (1982-1992); Berlin (Humboldt, emeritus October 2010). Doctor honoris causa in Theology (Gottingen, 2009); and in History (Trento, 2014) Fellow: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison (1990/91), Center for Western European Studies, Berkeley (1994); Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar (2003/04); Historisches Kolleg, München (2004/05). - Dr. A. H.-Heineken-Prize for History of the Royal Netherlands Academy (2002); Menahem Stern Lecture, Jerusalem (2006) on: Early modern European Civilization and its political and cultural dynamics. (publ. Hanover und London 2008. Member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische (former Preußische) Akademie der Wissenschaften; British Academy; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen; Academia Europaea Main fields of research: 1. European Comparative History; 2. Reformation and "Confessionalization"; 3. Early modern migration and minorities; 4. Political theory in early modern Europe; 5. History of the international system and foreign policys; 6. Early modern Dutch history; 7. Social and mental history of Calvinism in Germany and North-western Europe; 8. Urban history