Prof. Dr. Rainer Liedtke
Professor of European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Contact
Universität Regensburg
Institute for History
Universitätsstraße 31
93053 Regensburg
Germany
+49 (0)941 / 943-3543 rainer.liedtke@ur.de Webprofile
Main Research Areas
- Comparative European History
- Urban history and urbanisation research
- Jewish history
- British history
- History of modern Greece
Curriculum Vitae
Since October 2014, holder of a W3 professorship in European History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at Universität Regensburg. 2013-2014 research associate at the Institute of History of TU Darmstadt. 2013 interim professor (representative of Prof. Dr. med. Jens-Ivo Engels) at the Institute of History of TU Darmstadt. 2009-2013 visiting professor and research assistant at the Institute of History of the TU Darmstadt and associate professor at the Historical Institute of the Justus-Liebig-University-Gießen. 2006-2009 Research associate and associate professor at the Historical Institute of the Justus-Liebig-Universität-Gießen, DFG project: “Zivilgesellschaft und familiäre Regulationsmechanismen: Die Großstadtwerdung Athens im 20. Jahrhundert als Testfall für das Konzept der ‘europäischen Stadt”. 2004-2006 interim assistant professor at the Department of History of Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Chair Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen) and private lecturer at the Historical Institute of Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. 2004 habilitation in modern and recent history at the Justus Liebig Universität Gießen on "Kommunikationswege und Informationstransfer im europäischen Privatbankwesen des 19. Jahrhunderts". 1991-95 doctoral thesis in modern history at St. Antony's College, Oxford University: "Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, 1850-1914".
Positions, Assignments and Memberships
- Principal investigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
- Leader of the study group Social Sorting
- Executive Board Hungaricum - Hungarian Institute, Universität Regensburg
- Board Member of Regensburg University Center for Teacher Education (RUL)
- Board member of the Society for Urban and Urbanisation Research (Treasurer)
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Rothschild Archive Trust, London
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Leo-Baeck Institute, London
Publications
Supervised Ph.D. Theses at the Graduate School
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