PD Dr. Thomas Weller

Member of the academic staff, Department of History
Room: 01 216Phone: +49 6131 39 30310
Fax: +49 6131 39 30154
Personal Details:
From 2000 to 2008, he was a researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre 496 (SFB 496) "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems" at the University of Münster. Since June 2008, he has been a member of the academic staff at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz. 2022 Habilitation and award of the venia legendi for the subject of Modern History by the Department 07 History and Cultural Studies of the JGU Mainz.
Since 1 April 2021, Thomas Weller has held the Chair of Early Modern History at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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Research projects:
Cultural Difference and Early Modern Foreign Relations. The Spanish Monarchy and the Hanseatic Cities, approx. 1570–1700
By focussing on two actors who can be considered as unequal in various regards this project examines the contemporary ways of coping with cultural difference in the field of sixteenth and seventeenth-century foreign relations.
Leibniz research association "The Value of the Past"
The Leibniz research association "The Value of the Past" started its work on September 1, 2021 and over the next four years will investigate the significance of the past for societies in the past and present.
Lives on the move. Mobile identities and belonging in the Iberian Atlantic, 1570–1700
The project explores the connection between mobility and border demarcations from an actor-centred perspective. The focus is on merchants of different "nations" who participated in the Atlantic trade from Seville. In doing so, they crossed the spatial and political-legal borders drawn by the Spanish authorities. How did these practices of crossing borders affect the construction of identities and affiliations?