Michael Gehler

Michael Gehler, born in Innsbruck in 1962, is a German historian. From 1999 to 2006, he taught at the University of Innsbruck’s Institute of Contemporary History; from 2006, he was Professor of History and head of the Institute of History at the University of Hildesheim. From 2013 to 2017, he was founding director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, of which he is a corresponding member. As a Jean Monnet Chair, he focused on modern European history and European integration. His research areas include international relations, the histories of Europe, Austria and Germany, and the history of empires. His publications include “Empires and Realms in World History” (2014, with Robert Rollinger), “The Revolutions of 1989” (2015, with Wolfgang Mueller and Arnold Suppan), and “Europe: Ideas – Institutions – Unification – Cohesion” (2018).