Personal details: Born 1950 in Nittel (Trier-Saarburg district)

Academic CV

Studied German language and literature and history at Saarland University and Trier University 1968-1974, scientific examination LA Gymnasien 1974

Doctoral scholarship from the Cusanuswerk 1975-1977
Doctorate1978 with Prof. Dr Alfred Haverkamp:
Studies on the history of the Trier Cathedral Chapter in the late Middle Ages

Research assistant at the University of Trier in the field of historical regional studies 1977-1983,
Habilitation scholarship from the DFG 1983-1985
University assistant at the University of Trier 1985-1990

Habilitation thesis 1990:
Early forms of publishing house and large-scale enterprise in commercial production (13th-16th centuries) (first reviewer: Prof. Dr Franz Irsigler)

Sub-project leader in SFB 235 "Between the Meuse and the Rhine": Commercial landscapes, commercial densification and commercial centres between the Rhine and the Meuse and in the neighbouring areas 1990-1994

Interim professorship at the TH Darmstadt 1990/91
Interim professorship at the University of Bonn for medieval and modern history and Rhenish regional history 1991/92
Lecturer in economic history at the University of Trier 1992-1994

Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oldenburg since 1994

Director of the Department of History and the Institute of History at the University of Oldenburg 1997-1998 and 2014-2016

Together with Prof. Dr Detlef Hoffmann, initiator and co-founder of the supplementary and Master's degree programme "Museum and Exhibition" 2000 and first spokesperson of the working group, renewed spokesperson role 2006-2008

Dean of School IV - School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University 2008-2011

Member of the DFG Research Training Group 1608/1 and 1608/2 "Selbst-Bildungen. Practices of subjectivation in historical and interdisciplinary perspective" at the Carl von Ossietzky University since 2010

Retired since WS 2016