Lutz Raphael


Lutz Raphael is a German historian and historiographer. He is a professor at the University of Trier.

Life

Lutz Raphael was born in Essen. He studied History, Romance studies, Philosophy and Sociology at Münster and Paris between 1974 and 1984. It was at Münster that he received his doctorate with a doctorate entitled "Partei und Gewerkschaft" on the trades union strategies of the Communist Parties in Italy and France since 1970. Between 1987 and 1996 he was employed as an academic research assistant at TU Darmstadt. In 1994 his habilitation, received from the TU, opened the way to a lifelong academic career. His dissertation, this time, was entitled "The successors of Bloch and Febvre. Annales-historiography and 'Nouvelle histoire' in France ". In 1996 he became Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Trier, a position he has retained for more than twenty years.
Raphael served as a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities between 2007 and 2013. He was a Leibniz Prize winner in 2013. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Mainz-based Academy of Sciences and Literature. During 2015/2016 he was the Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the German Historical Institute London.

Output (selection)

An exceptionally high proportion of collaboratively produced work is listed.