Winfried Schulze#
| Membership Number: | 1988 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2019 Director of the Mercator Research Center Ruhr in Essen
- 2008 - 2009 Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 2008 Professor Emeritus
- 1976 - 1978 Professor of Early Modern History and Historical Methodology at the Freie Universität Berlin
- 1974 - 1976 Professor at the Gesamthochschule Kassel
- 1975 Habilitation at the FU Berlin
- 1970 - 1974 Assistant and assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin
- 1978 - 1993 Professor of Early Modern European History at the Ruhr University Bochum
- 1993 - 2008 Chair of Early Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- History of the early modern period (16th century, French Revolution)
- Methodology of history
- History of historical science after 1945
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the German Republic
- 1996 - 2001 Member of the Science Council of the German Republic (Chairman 1998 - 2001)
- 1996 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation
- 1996 Schulze Full (since 2008 corresponding) member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding member of the Finnish and the Austrian Academies of Sciences
