Joachim Bahlcke

Joachim Bahlcke served as a conscript in the German Federal Navy from 1984 to 1990. He studied Eastern European, Modern, and Contemporary History, as well as Philosophy in Trier, Vienna, and Freiburg/Breisgau. He conducted a one-year research stay at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, along with additional research stays in Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, and Poland. He completed his Ph.D. in 1993 with a study on the constitutional and social history of 16th/17th century Bohemia. From 1993 to 2002, he worked as a research assistant at various academic institutes specializing in historical research on East Central Europe, most recently at the Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. In January 2002, he obtained his habilitation that focused on the social history of the Hungarian-Croatian episcopate in the 17th/18th century. From April 2002 to September 2003, he held the professorship for East Central European History at the University of Erfurt, and since October 2003, he has been the chair of Early Modern History at the University of Stuttgart.