(*1962)
Martin Schulze Wessel studied history and Slavonic studies at the Berlinian Freie Universität. In 2002 he received his PhD in Modern and East European History from Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg. He worked as a researcher at both of his alma maters and later at the Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Aarhus University.
In 2002 he was appointed head of the Department of East and Southeast European History at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Since 2003 he has been the director of the Collegia Carolina, a research institute for the history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2009 and was President of the German Historical Society from 2012-2016.His main research interests are the history of international relations (especially between Prussia, or Germany, Poland and Russia from the 18th century to the present), the history of religion in Central Eastern Europe and Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has published four monographs, edited 22 scholarly volumes and authored numerous journal articles. Two of his works have been published in Czech in recent years: Memory – Exposure – Storage.Museumisation of History in the Czech-German-Slovak Context (2017) and the title The Prague Spring ( 2018).
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