Professor Dr. Olaf Blaschke

Current affiliations

  • Professorship for modern and contemporary history with the focus on the history of the 19th century
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Religion and globalization
  • Catholicism
  • Confessionalism
  • Secularization
  • Antisemitism
  • History of historiography and science
  • Book trade research

Academic Education

2006Habilitation in Trier
1996Promotion in Bielefeld
1990Staatsexamen/Magister in Bielefeld

Work Experience

since 2018Professorship in “Modern History, with a focus on the 19th century”
2014 - 2018Professorship in the “History of the 19th/20th century, with a focus on the theory and methodology of historical science”, Department of History, University of Münster
2012 - 2014Lectureship in Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History at the Centre for European History and Cultural Studies, University of Heidelberg
2008 - 2012Acting chair for Prof. Dr. Andreas Gestrich (Modern History), with a focus on 19th century, and director of the Department of History, University of Trier
2005 - 2008Research assistant in the Cluster of Excellence of the Universities of Trier and Mainz: “Societal dependencies and social networks”. Project leader of II.06: Networks of researchers on the Catholic Church and Catholicism in West Germany
2007Acting chair for Prof. Dr. Lutz Raphael, with a focus on contemporary history (summer term 2007), University of Trier
2004 - 2005Visiting researcher at the University of Lund as recipient of the Jubilee Fund research award of the Swedish Riksbank Foundation
1997 - 2004Research assistant for History, University of Trier
2001 - 2002Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine’s College as Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1996Research assistant, Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Bielefeld

Publications

Blaschke, Olaf (2024)
In: Ramón Solans, Francisco Javier (eds.), Nationalism, Religious Violence and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe. Memories of Intolerance. London u. New York: Routledge.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Blaschke, Olaf; Potthast, Simon (2023)
In: Historische Zeitschrift, 316
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Blaschke, Olaf (2023)
In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 71
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Blaschke, Olaf (2023)
In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 131
Type of Publication: Review (journal)
Blaschke, Olaf (2023)
Type of Publication: Website (publicly available)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration: 01/04/2015 - 01/10/2017
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/10/2014 - 31/12/2018 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Doctorates

Governance of the Brazilian Church between Rome and Rio de Janeiro: The role of the Council of Trent in ecclesiastical administration (1840-1889)
Candidate: Anna Clara Lehmann Martins | Supervisors: Sontag, Ricardo (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasilien); Blaschke, Olaf
Period of time: 02/10/2017 - 01/06/2020
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Diplomatic Practice of the Apostolic Nuncios in Munich in the First Half of the 19th Century: Michele Viale Prelà 1838-1845
Candidate: Valentin, Christoph | Supervisors: Wolf, Hubert; Blaschke, Olaf
Period of time: 01/01/2014 - 21/02/2019
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster