Jörn Leonhard

In 2007, Leonhard founded the School of History at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies together with Ulrich Herbert, which they both directed until 2012.

[9] Adam Tooze, however, noted that the book needed "more critical distance from the contemporary witnesses to the disasters of the 20th century".

In the 2016/17 academic year, Leonhard was awarded the research fellowship of the Institute of Contemporary History at the Historisches Kolleg Munich for his monography Der überforderte Frieden.

[14] In Deutschlandfunk, Jörg Himmelreich called it a "brilliant global-historical account of the preconditions and, above all, the global consequences of these treaties.

[17] Leonhard was involved as Principal Investigator and board member in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 948 "Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms"[18] and is currently a member of the DFG Research Training Group 2571 "Empires: Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders" at the University of Freiburg.

In his conceptual approaches, he has dealt intensively with comparative historical semantics, the history of discourse, experience and argumentation.

Thematic foci are the history of liberalism and nationalism, of war and peace, and the study of multi-ethnic empires in the 19th and early 20th centuries.