Gerrit Walther
German historian of modern age
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerrit Walther is a German historian. Life Born Kiel, Walther studied literature, history and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt from 1980 to 1986 and completed an editorial training course at a daily newspaper. His most important academic teachers were Ulrich Muhlack and Notker Hammerstein. From 1987 to 1997 Walther was a research assistant in Frankfurt. In 1992 he received his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on the historian and politician Barthold Niebuhr supervised by Ulrich Muhlack. The second and third reviewers of the work were Notker Hammerstein and Lothar Gall. In the summer of 1993 Walther was awarded the Friedrich Sperl Prize of the Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1997 he also completed his habilitation in Frankfurt with a thesis on the Fulda prince abbot Balthasar von Dernbach. In Frankfurt he also taught as a private lecturer for modern history. In 2000/2001 Walther held a chair for early modern history at the University of Giessen. Since 2002, he has been teaching in the succession of Hartwig Brandt as professor of early modern history at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He became Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies in October 2008.
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