Simon Dreher, M.A.
Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Digitale Editionen
Raum 0.06
Königsstraße 46
48143 Münster
T+49 251 83 275 10
simon.dreher@uni-muenster.de
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2024
University of Münster / Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Research Assistant for digital edition projects and database management, in particular for the project ‘riefe westfälischer Adliger aus der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges’
2022–2024
Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Research trainee in the field of Digital Humanities
Since 2022
University of Münster
Continuation of doctoral research at the Department of Eastern European History at the University of Münster under Prof. Dr Ricarda Vulpius.
2018–2022
University of Vienna
University Assistant (research and teaching) at the Institute for Eastern European History
PhD project on European immigrants and forced migrants in urban areas of the 17th-century Muscovite state under Univ. Prof. Wolfgang Mueller
2014–2017
Forschungsstelle für Personalschriften Marburg (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz)
Student/research assistant, including on the DFG project ‘Archiv-, Editions- und Distributionsplattform für Werke der Frühen Neuzeit’ (AEDit)
2009–2017
University of Marburg
Studied History, specialising in the Early Modern Period, with Celtic Studies and German Studies as minor subjects.
Bachelor’s thesis (2013) on the future and posterity in the ‘memorial works’ of Maximilian I.
Research Focus
Social and urban history of the Muscovite State (16th–17th centuries)
Cross-border (forced) migration in Eastern Europe (17th century)
Perceptions (by outsiders) of religious minorities in the Muscovite State and the Russian Empire (16th–18th centuries)
Publications
[zus. mit Rita Schlautmann-Overmeyer] (Hg.), Exile Letters. Korrespondenzen jüdischer Familien zwischen Emigration und Deportation, herausgegeben durch das Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Münster, Dezember 2024. (www.exileletters.de)
[zus. mit Wolfgang Mueller] (ed.), Foreigners in Muscovy. Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia, Abington / New York 2023.
Foreigners on Moscow's Housing Market. Legislation, Practices, and Administrative Handling of Foreign Residence Ownership in the Decades before Its Prohibition in 1652, in: Simon Dreher/Wolfgang Mueller (Hg.), Foreigners in Muscovy. Western Immigrants in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Russia, Abington / New York 2023, S. 62–79.