Welcome to the Department of History and Cultural Studies

The Department of History and Cultural Studies covers a wide range of different eras, from antiquity to the modern period, and a vast physical area, stretching from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and the Americas.

The Department of History and Cultural Studies offers a research profile found nowhere else in Germany. It covers a wide range of different eras, from ancient times to the modern period, and a vast physical area, stretching from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and the Americas.

Students in this department are exposed to a wide variety of methods, which enables them to gain a good foundation for gathering new data in various regions of the world and in various epochs.  Using the new data, existing theoretical models can be reviewed and new ones developed.