Romedio Schmitz-Esser

Romedio Schmitz-Esser, born in Hamburg in 1978, studied history and art history in Innsbruck. From 2005 to 2008, he headed the city archive of Hall in Tyrol as its municipal historian and curated the town’s museums. He subsequently worked at the Department of History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and, in 2011/12, conducted research at Duke University in North Carolina as a Feodor Lynen Fellow. In 2013, he received his habilitation in medieval history and historical auxiliary sciences at LMU. From 2014 to 2016, he directed the German Study Centre in Venice, followed by a professorship in medieval history at the University of Graz. In 2020, he became Professor of Medieval History at Heidelberg University. His habilitation received awards from the Association of Historians and Historians of Germany and the “Geisteswissenschaften international” program.