About Jürgen Osterhammel

Jürgen Osterhammel, until his retirement in 2018, was professor of modern history at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He is now a distinguished fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study. His publications in English include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2014) and Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia (Princeton University Press, 2018). With Akira Iriye, he is the editor of a six-volume History of the World, published by Harvard University Press since 2012. He is a recipient of several awards including the Toynbee Prize (2017) and the Balzan Prize (2018).