Theo Jung

I studied history and philosophy in Leiden and Berlin. My two MA-theses on Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and on Nietzsche’s second Untimely Meditation raised my interest in the history of language and its role in historical processes. 

This led me to Bielefeld, where between 2006 and 2010 I wrote a dissertation, supervised by Prof. Dr. Willibald Steinmetz, on the emergence of modern discourses of decadence in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe. In 2010, I graduated as a PhD (summa cum laude).

Between 2011 and 2022, I was an Assistant Professor at the chair of Modern Western European History (Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard) at Freiburg University. On the basis of my second book on the role of silence in nineteenth century European politics, I received my habilitation certificate in December 2021.

In July 2022, I joined the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg as a Professor of Modern History.