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Prof. Dr.

Gudrun Gersmann

Dr. Gudrun Gersmann
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Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Cologne

 

 

Education and Professional Milestones
1978 - 1984 Studies of History, Romance Languages, German Studies, and Philosopy in Bochum, Genva, and Paris
1984 - 1988 Research Assistant in the DFG project "Censorship and Forbidden Books in France During the Ancien Régime" (Chair Winfried Schulze, Ruhr University, Bochum)
1988 - 1993 Research Assistant, later Scientific Assitant at the Chair for History of Early Modern Age (Ruhr University, Bochum)
1993 - 1996 Habilitation fellowship in the Lise Meitner Program
1996 - 1998 Research Assistant at the Chair of Early Modern History at LMU Munich
1999 - 2002 Head of the DFG project "A Server for the Early Modern Age" at LMU Munich
2000 Habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) at LMU Munich
2002 Post-habilitation fellowship at LMU Munich

2002 - 2004

Professor of Early Modern History at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the University Archives Aachen

2004 – 2007

Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Cologne
2007 – 2012 Director of the Institut Historique Allemand, Paris

Since September 2012

Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Cologne