!!Arndt Brendecke - Curriculum Vitae *1970 in Traunstein, Germany \\ *1990-1996 student of medieval history, modern history and political sciences at the University of Munich (LMU)\\ *1996-1999 member of the research staff of the History Department, University of Munich (LMU) \\ *1999 doctorate (summa cum laude) at the University of Munich (LMU) \\ *2000-2006 research assistant at the History Department (Prof. Dr. Winfried Schulze) University of Munich (LMU) \\ *2008 postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Munich (LMU)\\ *2001-2009 principal investigator and (since 2007) deputy spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center of the German Research Foundation SFB 573 'Pluralisierung und Autorität in der Frühen Neuzeit\\ *2002-2003 scholarship of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Instituto de Historia of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid \\ *2006-2009 Research fellow (Dilthey Fellow) of the joint initiative ‘Pro Geisteswissenschaften’, established by the Volkswagen Foundation and Fritz Thyssen Foundation \\ *2008: Lecturer of Latin American History at the University of Berne (Switzerland) \\ *2010-2011 Professor for the History and Culture of Latin America at the University of Berne (Switzerland)\\ *since 2011 Chair of Early Modern History, University of Munich (LMU)\\ *since 2012 Director of the Research Center Foundations of Modernity, University of Munich (LMU)\\ *2013-2014 Director of the Historical Seminar, University of Munich (LMU)\\ \\ A full lenght cv is available at [http://www.fnz.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/brendecke_arndt/brendecke_cv/index.html].