Andreas Pečar


Andreas Pečar is a German historian of the Early modern period and a lecturer at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

Life

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Pečar studied history and German language and literature at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the University of Cologne with a master's degree in 1997. From 1999 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the University of Cologne. He received his doctorate in 2002 with a thesis on the courtly nobility at the imperial court of Charles VI. His academic teacher was Johannes Kunisch. From 2001 to 2009 he was assistant at the University of Rostock and in 2005/06 he was a Fedor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Queen Mary College. After his habilitation and a substitute professorship in Rostock and another one in Halle, he became Professor of Early Modern History in Halle in 2010. In 2014 he became spokesman of the Landesforschungsschwerpunkt Aufklärung - Religion - Wissen.
Pečar is a member of the and is on the board of trustees of the Leucorea Foundation. He was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG. In 2007/08 he was part of the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration in Konstanz.
He deals with political cultural history and Enlightenment research. Among other things, he dealt with Frederick the Great as a writer.
On 1 February 2019, Pečar was elected chairman of the Historical Commission of Saxony-Anhalt.

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