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Jan Hirschbiegel studied Ancient, Medieval and Modern History as well as European Ethnology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel. He received his MA in History 1993. From 1993 to 1995 he held a doctoral scholarship granted by the state of Schleswig-Holstein. He received a Scholarship of German Historical Institute in Paris where he spent a six-month research stay. In 1998 he received his PhD in History. His thesis is dealing with with social and cultural aspects of gift-giving at the French Courts in the Late Middle Ages during the reign of King Charles VI (1380-1422). From 1995 to 2011 he worked as a research associate in the research project “Hof und Residenz im spätmittelalterlichen Deutschen Reich (1200-1600)“/ “ Courts and Residences in the Holy Roman Empire in the Later Middle Ages (1200-1600) of the the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. His habilitation effected in 2011. The habilitation treatise is entitled: Manifestations of trust? Close relations at princely courts in the Later Middle Ages. Since 2012 he is working as a research associate in the research project „Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)“/ Court Cities in the Holy Roman Empire (1300-1800) of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Interests: Medieval travelogues; theory, cultural and social history of the courts; research in residences and court cities.