Jürgen Osterhammel#
| Membership Number: | 2229 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - 2018 Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, University of Konstanz
- 1997 - 1999 Professor of International History, Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva)
- 1990 - 1997 Professor of Non-European History, Fernuniversität Hagen
- 1986 - 1990 Reader in Political Science, University of Freiburg
- 1982 - 1986 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute London
- 1980 Dr.phil., history, University of Kassel
Fields of Scholarship
- Global history since the eighteenth century
- History and theory of historiography
- History of european expansion, imperialism, colonialism, cultural transfers
- Enlightenment studies
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Prize for exceptional achievements of young academics, awarded by the Association of Germany Historians
- 1999 Gleim Prize for Literature awarded by the city of Halberstadt
- 2001 Anna Krüger Prize of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
- 2010 Leibniz-Preis, awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeisnchaft
- 2012 Member of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2012 Gerda Henkel Award
- 2014 Corresponding member of the British Academy
- 2015 Member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- 2017 Toynbee Prize
- 2018 Balzan Prize
- 2019 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
