Birgit Aschmann

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Birgit Aschmann (born 8 January 1967) is a historian, originally from Hamburg in West Germany. [1] Since April 2011 she has held a teaching chair in nineteenth century European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. [2] One focus of her work is on Spanish History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [3]

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Life

On leaving school, Aschmann embarked on a study course in Medicine, which lasted from 1986 till 1989. [2] It was only then that she enrolled at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel for a study course that combined History, German and Spanish. [1] Her student career included significant periods studying at Madrid, Málaga und Guayaquil (in Ecuador). [2] She concluded her undergraduate studies in 1995 and spent the next three years working on a doctorate. [1] Her doctorate, also from Kiel, addressed the relations between West Germany during the "Wirtschaftswunder years" and Spain under Franco. It was subsequently adapted for publication under the title "Treue Freunde...?: Westdeutschland und Spanien 1945 bis 1963". [4] Between 1998 and 2000 she worked as an academic researcher at the Kiel University Institute for Modern and Contemporary History, having obtained a lectureship in 1998. [3] She remained at Kiel as an academic counsellor ("Akademische Rätin") till 2003, after which she was a senior academic research assistant. Between 2004 and 2010 she was increasingly focused on her habilitation which she received for a dissertation entitled "Prussia's Glory and Germany's Honour: The Discourse on National Honour in the build-up to the Franco-Prussian War" ("Preußens Ruhm und Deutschlands Ehre. Der nationale Ehrdiskurs im Vorfeld der preußisch-französischen Kriege im 19. Jahrhundert"). [5] Another work published during this period concerned the balance between Calculation and Emotion in driving the politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [6]

Birgit Aschmann received a teaching chair in Modern and Contemporary History at Kiel in 2010. [1] She moved the next year, however, taking the teaching chair in European Nineteenth Century at the Humboldt University of Berlin on 1 April 2011 [2] in succession to Wolfgang Hardtwig  [ de ].

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Prof. Dr. Birgit Aschmann". Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Prof. Dr. Birgit Aschmann". Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften (in German). 10 February 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 Jürgen Elvert; Sylvain Schirmann (2008). Changing Times. Peter Lang. p. 541. ISBN   978-90-5201-483-8.
  4. Birgit Aschmann (1 December 1999). Treue Freunde...?: Westdeutschland und Spanien 1945 bis 1963. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. ISBN   978-3-515-07579-4.
  5. Jens Flemming (5 December 2012). Birgit Aschmann: Preußens Ruhm und Deutschlands Ehre. Oldenbourg, München (publisher of the book) & sehepunkte 14 (2014), Nr. 5 [15.05.2014] (the online review)). ISBN   978-3-486-71296-4 . Retrieved 2 September 2016.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  6. Gefühl und Kalkül. Der Einfluss von Emotionen auf die Politik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Vol. 62. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. 2005. ISBN   978-3-515-08804-6. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2016-09-02.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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