Professor Dr. Olaf Blaschke

Academic Education

2006

Habilitation in Trier

1996

Promotion in Bielefeld

1990

Staatsexamen/Magister in Bielefeld

Positions

since 2018

Professorship in “Modern History, with a focus on the 19th century”

2014 – 2018

Professorship in the “History of the 19th/20th century, with a focus on the theory and methodology of historical science”, Department of History, University of Münster

2012 – 2014

Lectureship in Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History at the Centre for European History and Cultural Studies, University of Heidelberg

2008 – 2012

Acting chair for Prof. Dr. Andreas Gestrich (Modern History), with a focus on 19th century, and director of the Department of History, University of Trier

2005 – 2008

Research assistant in the Cluster of Excellence of the Universities of Trier and Mainz: “Societal dependencies and social networks”. Project leader of II.06: Networks of researchers on the Catholic Church and Catholicism in West Germany

2007

Acting chair for Prof. Dr. Lutz Raphael, with a focus on contemporary history (summer term 2007), University of Trier

2004 – 2005

Visiting researcher at the University of Lund as recipient of the Jubilee Fund research award of the Swedish Riksbank Foundation

1997 – 2004

Research assistant for History, University of Trier

2001 – 2002

Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine’s College as Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

1996

Research assistant, Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Bielefeld