President of the Academy
Bernd Schneidmüller is Senior Professor of Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg. Previously, he was director of the Department of History and the Institute for Franconian-Palatinate History and Regional Studies. His research interests include the whole process of European nation-building in the Middle Ages and the emergence of political, social and societal identities.
He has been a corresponding member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (external link) since 1993 and a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2005. There he served on the board as secretary of the Philosophical-Historical Class from 2014 to 2016. The mediaevist is a member of numerous commissions, including historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian regional history at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (external link) and the Konstanz Working Group for Medieval History (external link).
Schneidmüller was one of the two directors of the Marsilius-Kolleg at Heidelberg University (external link) from 2014 to 2020.
Together with Gert Melville (external link) he heads the inter-academic research project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages. Innovation Laboratories of European Life Designs and Models of Order" (internal link) which is run both by the Heidelberg and Saxon Academies of Sciences and Humanities (external link).
Publications (PDF) and editorships (external link)