Prof. Dr. Willibald Steinmetz. Photo: Universität Bielefeld.

The Modern History Seminar welcomes professor Willibald Steinmetz, Universität Bielefeld. Willibald Steinmetz is an internationally leading professor of conceptual history, recently retired to Emeritus after twenty years of research focusing on historical politics. During the past few years, professor Steinmetz has, among other areas, studied the use of concepts in historical comparisons - see for example The Force of Comparison: A New Perspective on Modern European History and the Contemporary World (2019). 

At the seminar, professor Willibald Steinmetz topic will be: "More than Begriffsgeschichte: The legacy of Reinhart Koselleck in (German) Historiography".