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Prof. Dr. Andreas Rüther

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1. Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology / Department of History

Geschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

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andreas.ruether@uni-bielefeld.de  
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Gebäude X A3-214 − Locations Map
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Telephone/Zoom by appointment via email – Office hours during the lecture term: Mondays 2.30–3.30 pm – Semester holidays: Monday 3 August, 2–3 pm / Thursday 3 September, 3–4 pm

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Geschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 2025 Fellow of the Resident Group "Eigendynamiken. Analogue Structures of Change in Premodern East Asia and Europe" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Bielefeld
  • Since 2017 departmental teaching staff in the Department of History for the Medieval and Early Modern Period at Bielefeld University
  • 2016-2017 Deputy Chair for the History of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period at the University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2015 Appointment as adjunct professor at the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University
  • 2014-2015 Deputy Professor of General History with special emphasis on the High and Late Middle Ages at the history of Bielefeld University
  • 2013-2014 Deputy Chair of Medieval History, in particular the History of the Later Middle Ages at the Ruhr University Bochum
  • 2009-2013 Academic Senior Councillor at the Faculty of History at the Ruhr University Bochum in the field of Medieval History
  • 2007-2009 Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Kassel with W2 lectureship at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main
  • 2006-2007 Project collaborator and Temporary Lecturer at the Chair of Medieval History and Ancillary Historical Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum
  • 2004-2006 Substitute for German regional history, late medieval history and Eastern European history at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 2004 Post-doctoral habilitation, Privatdozent [senior lecturer] for Medieval and Modern History at Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 1998-2004 Research assistant at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 1997-1998 Immanuel Kant habilitation scholarship from the Herder Institute Marburg
  • 1996 Habilitation scholarship from the German Historical Institute in Warsaw
  • 1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Research Training Group "Church and Society in the Holy Roman Empire of the 15th and 16th Centuries" at the Georg-August-University Göttingen
  • 1994 Doctorate in history, specialising in the Middle Ages, at the Free University of Berlin
  • 1990 Scholar, stipendiary at the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani in Assisi
  • 1989-1994 Academic co-worker at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin
  • 1988 First state exam(ination) for the office of the Studienrat before the Scientific State Examination Office Berlin
  • 1983-1988 Studied history, German philology and political science at the Free University of Berlin

Current research topics

  • Pre-modern agricultural and migration history
  • New cultural history of the political
  • Comparative regional history
  • Research on courts and residences in the late Middle Ages and early modern period
  • Church and city history in the later Middle Ages
  • Monasticism and religious orders since the early and high Middle Ages

Memberships and Functions

  • Historical Commission for Westphalia
  • Historical Commission for Silesia
  • Association for Student Exchange in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Sponsor of the library of the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld e. V.
  • Mediävistenverband e. V.
  • Association of Historians in Germany
  • German University Association