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Malte Wittmaack

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 2017-2019 Master's degree programme in History with the profile "History of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period"
  • since 5/2020 academic co-worker at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology
  • since 01/2021 Academic co-worker in the CRC 1288 "Practices of Comparison - Ordering and Changing the World" - Subproject D03[B01] "The Compared Body. Order in the diversity of people (16th-19th century) (Subproject leader: Prof'in. Dr Antje Flüchter)
  • 01/2021-09/2024: Doctorate/Phd studies (Early Modern History) with the thesis: “Body - Orders - Relations to the World. Historical-somatological perspectives on the compared body through the example of cultural contact with the Ottoman Empire as reflected in German-language travelogues of the 16th-18th centuries." (Working title)

Current research topics

  • Practices of comparison
  • History of the body and gender in the early modern period
  • Cultural contact between Europe and the Ottoman Empire 15th-18th century
  • History of entanglement
  • Theories in the study of history
  • Historical ontologies
  • History of moorland colonisation, dykes, and hydraulic engineering in Prussia (North and East Frisia) in the early modern period
  • History of (in)security in the early modern period
  • Transformations of statehood from the 16th to the 18th century