Birgit Aschmann

[1] Since April 2011 she has held a teaching chair in nineteenth century European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

[1] Her student career included significant periods studying at Madrid, Málaga und Guayaquil (in Ecuador).

[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.

[5] Another work published during this period concerned the balance between Calculation and Emotion in driving the politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

[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].