Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kießling
Chair of Modern and Contemporary History
Curriculum vitae
1991-1996 Studies in Modern and Contemporary History, Modern German Literary History and Philosophy
1996 Research fellow at the German Historical Institute London
1996-1999 Doctoral scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2000 Ph.D. History, thesis on European détente policy before 1914
2001-2007 Assistant Professor at the Chair of Modern History II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2007 Habilitation on the History of Ideas and Intellectuals in the Federal Republic of Germany
2008 Habilitation Prize of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; further research and teaching stays in Dresden, Passau, and Vienna (i.a.)
2010 and 2012-2014 Interim Chair of Modern History II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2012 Appointment as adjunct professor
2014-2020 Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
since 2020 Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Bonn
Research interests
1. German and European History in the 19th and 20th Century2. History of International Relations
3. Modern History of Ideas and Modern Intellectual History
4. Imperialism and Colonial History
5. The Federal Republic and the National Socialist Past