Andreas Fahrmeir studied medieval and modern history, the history of natural sciences and English philology at Goethe University Frankfurt. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge on the history of migration control in the 19th century and habilitated at Goethe University while working as a research assistant at the German Historical Institute in London. After a short working period as a management consultant, he was a DFG Heisenberg Fellow and Professor of 19th and 20th century European history at the University of Cologne. Since 2006, he holds the Chair of modern history with a focus on the 19th century at Goethe University.
E-Mail: fahrmeir@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Research interest
Since his habilitation thesis on the office holders of the Corporation of London between the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 20th century, Andreas Fahrmeir has been interested in the correlations between the socio-historical development in and the symbolic production of urban orders, as expressed in concrete (re-)construction projects, the course set by infrastructure and the constantly renegotiated use of larger and smaller public and private spaces and buildings with their consequences for different groups. He is still especially interested in the example of London—now seen also from the periphery, but also in the view of cities in the alleged provinces such as Aschaffenburg.
