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 | |
| 2006 | Habilitation in Trier |
| 1996 | Promotion in Bielefeld |
| 1990 | Staatsexamen/Magister in Bielefeld |
Work Experience | |
| since 2018 | Professorship in “Modern History, with a focus on the 19th century” |
| 2014 - 2018 | Professorship 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 - 2014 | Lectureship in Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History at the Centre for European History and Cultural Studies, University of Heidelberg |
| 2008 - 2012 | Acting 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 - 2008 | Research 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 |
| 2007 | Acting chair for Prof. Dr. Lutz Raphael, with a focus on contemporary history (summer term 2007), University of Trier |
| 2004 - 2005 | Visiting researcher at the University of Lund as recipient of the Jubilee Fund research award of the Swedish Riksbank Foundation |
| 1997 - 2004 | Research assistant for History, University of Trier |
| 2001 - 2002 | Visiting 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 |
| 1996 | Research assistant, Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Bielefeld |
Publications
Blaschke, Olaf (2025) Baden-Baden: Nomos. doi:10.5771/9783748938606 Text book (monograph) | Published | |
Blaschke, Olaf (2025) In: Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte, Beiheft 2, 25-52. Research article (journal) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Blaschke, Olaf (2024) In: Ramón Solans, Francisco Javier (eds.), Nationalism, Religious Violence and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe. Memories of Intolerance, 176-191. London u. New York: Routledge. Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Blaschke, Olaf (2024) In: Steiner, Stephan; Daniel Weidner (eds.), Stephan Steiner u. Daniel Weidner (Hg.), Kulturkampf. Konflikt, Kultur, Konfession, Baden Baden , 17-37. Baden Baden: Rombach Verlag. doi:10.5771/9783988580689 Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published | |
Blaschke, Olaf; Hitze, Guido; Körber, Manfred; Köster, Markus; Mölich, Georg; Paulus, Julia (eds.) (2024) Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh. doi:10.30965/9783657794836 Conference proceedings | Published |
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 |