Martin Baumeister

Martin Baumeister since 2012 is the director of the German Historical Institute in Rome. After studying history, German studies and Spanish language and literature, he earned his PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in 1992 and his habilitation at the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2001. From 2003 to 2017 he held the Chair in Contemporary European History at the LMU of Munich. His current research interests are the history of contemporary Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, urban history, the history of religion and the history of historiography.