Professor Dr Jürgen Osterhammel FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2014
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Jürgen Osterhammel retired from the chair of modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz in Germany in early 2018. He is now a Distinguished Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies in Freiburg im Breisgau. He holds an honorary doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence, and is a member of the Order Pour le Mérite (German Order of Merit). His awards include the Leibniz-Preis (2010), the Toynbee Prize (2017) and the Balzan Prize (2018).
Current post
Distinguished Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Freiburg im Breisgau, from 2019
Past appointments
University of Konstanz Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
1999 - 2018
The Graduate Institute, Geneva Professor of International History
1997 - 1999
FernUniversität Hagen (German Open University) Professor of Non-European History
1990 - 1997
University of Freiburg Senior Lecturer in Political Science
1986 - 1990
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Pekka Johannes Hämäläinen FBA
Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
Professor Gareth Stedman Jones FBA
British and European history, particularly the history of political thought from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the First World War
