Thomas Ertl

Job title: 
Botstiber Foundation Visiting Professor
Department: 
German
Bio/CV: 

Thomas Ertl is an Austrian historian specializing in the high and late Middle Ages. Since October 2018 he has been Professor of High and Late Medieval History at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, he was a professor of social and economic history of the Middle Ages at the University of Vienna.

Research interests: 

His research focuses on social and economic dimensions of medieval Europe and global connections before 1800.