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Klaus Oschema

Director, German Historical Institute Paris · France

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Klaus Oschema is the CEO of German Historical Institute Paris. Oschema is based in France. Oschema was born in 1972 in Bamberg.

Medieval historian who became Director of the German Historical Institute Paris in September 2023. He earned his PhD in 2004 from TU Dresden and École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, and habilitated at the University of Heidelberg in 2012 with work on medieval concepts of Europe. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Late Medieval History at Ruhr-University Bochum since 2017.

Born
June 29, 1972 · Bamberg

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