Birgit Aschmann

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]

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 and 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 ].

Works

• Aschmann, Birgit; Eckert, Andreas; Fahrmeir, Andreas; Habermas, Rebekka; Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard; Hirschhausen, Ulrike von; Langewiesche, Dieter; Lenger, Friedrich; Leonhard, Jörn; Planert, Ute; Schaser, Angelika; Schönpflug, Daniel; Wienfort, Monika; Campus Verlag (2019). Durchbruch der Moderne? neue Perspektiven auf das 19. Jahrhundert (in German). Frankfurt. ISBN   978-3-593-51087-3. OCLC   1097677309.
• Aschmann, Birgit; Herbers, Klaus; Böhlau-Verlag Köln (2022). Eine andere Geschichte Spaniens Schlüsselgestalten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Köln. ISBN   978-3-412-52557-6. OCLC   1311492239.

References

1. "Prof. Dr. Birgit Aschmann". Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
2. "Prof. Dr. Birgit Aschmann". Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften (in German). 10 February 2012. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
3. 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. Aschmann, Birgit (2012-12-05). Preußens Ruhm und Deutschlands Ehre (in German). München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN   978-3-486-71296-4.
6. Aschmann, Birgit (2005). Gefühl und Kalkül (in German). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN   978-3-515-08804-6.

Further reading

• "Prof. Birgit Aschmann". Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (in German). 10 October 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.