School of History directory
Ancient History
Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Krause
Chair of Ancient History with a focus on social and economic history
Prof. Dr. Karen Radner
Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professor of Ancient Near and Middle Eastern History
Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmermann
Dean, Chair of Ancient History
Speaker of the Graduate School "Formen von Prestige in Kulturen des Altertums"
Medieval History
Prof. Dr. Knut Görich
Chair of Medieval History with a focus on the Early and High Middle Ages
Prof. Dr. Eva Haverkamp-Rott
Professor of Medieval Jewish History
Prof. Dr. Julia Burkhardt
Chair of Medieval History with a focus on the Late Middle Ages
Early Modern History
Prof. Dr. Arndt Brendecke
Chair of Early Modern History
Prof. Dr. Mark Hengerer
Professor of Early Modern History of Western Europe
Modern and Contemporary History
Prof. Dr. Martin Baumeister
Chair of Modern European History
Director of the German Historical Institute Rome (2012-2017)
Prof. Dr. Martin H. Geyer
Professor of Modern History
Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel
Chair of Modern European History
Prof. Dr. Margit Szöllösi-Janze
Chair of Modern and Contemporary History
Prof. Dr. Roland Wenzlhuemer
Chair of Recent and Contemporary History
Prof. Dr. Andreas Wirsching
Chair of Modern History
Director of the Institute of Contemporary History Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Jewish History and Culture
Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner
Chair of Jewish History and Culture
Prof. Dr. Eva Haverkamp-Rott
Professor of Medieval Jewish History
Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Historical Media Studies
Prof. Dr. Martin Wagendorfer
Professor of the Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Historical Media Studies
History of Science
Prof. Dr. Kärin Nickelsen
Chair of the History of Science
Didactics of History
Prof. Dr. Michele Barricelli
Chair of Didactics of History
Eastern and Southestern European History
Prof. Dr. Marie-Janine Calic
Professor of the History of Eeastern and Southeastern Europe
Prof. Dr. Julia Herzberg
Professor of the History of Early Modern Eastern and Middle-Eastern Europe and Russia
Prof. Dr. Andreas Renner
Chair of Russian and Asian Studies
Prof. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel
Chair of the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europea
Speaker of the Graduate School for Eastern and Southeastern European Studies
Bavarian History
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Kramer
Chair of the History of Bavaria
Prof. Dr. Dieter J. Weiß
Chair of the History of Bavaria and the Comparative Regional Medieval History