PD Dr. Thomas Weller

Born in 1969 in Leverkusen, Thomas Weller studied History, German and Spanish Language and Literature, and Educational Science at the universities of Cologne and Seville. He qualified as a secondary school teacher in 1999 and received a doctoral degree in History from the University of Münster in 2004.
From 2000 to 2008, he was a research associate 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 permanent research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), 2022 Habilitation in early modern history at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, between 2021 and 2023 Thomas Weller held the Chair of Early Modern History at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as a substitute professor.

• Social and cultural history of the early modern town
• Symbolic communication in the early modern period
• Early Modern External Relations
• Cultural difference and social inequality in the early modern period
• Hanseatic History
• History of slavery
• History of Spain and Latin America

• Ungleiche Partner. Die spanische Monarchie und die Hansestädte, ca. 1570-1700 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte 270), Göttingen 2023, https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666302466
• Fließende Grenzen. Mobilität und Zugehörigkeiten „deutscher“ Kaufleute im iberischen Atlantik, in: Sarah Panter / Johannes Paulmann / Thomas Weller (Hg.), Mobilität und Differenzierung. Zur Konstruktion von Unterschieden und Zugehörigkeiten in der europäischen Neuzeit, Göttingen 2023 (VIEG Beiheft 139), S. 109–142, https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666302169.109
• „He knows them by their dress“. Dress and Otherness in Early Modern Spain, in: European History Yearbook 20 (2019), S. 52–72, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110635942-004
• Humanitarianism Before Humanitarianism? Spanish Discourses on Slavery from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, in: Fabian Klose / Mirjam Thulin (Hg.), Humanity. A History of European Concepts in Practice from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, Göttingen 2016 (VIEG Beiheft 110), S. 151-168, https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666302466
• Theatrum Praecedentiae. Zeremonieller Rang und gesellschaftliche Ordnung in der frühneuzeitlichen Stadt: Leipzig 1500-1800 (Symbolische Kommunikation in der Vormoderne), Darmstadt 2006