
Martin Schulze Wessel is Professor of East and South East European History at LMU Munich and Richard von Weizsäcker Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is the Director of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute for the History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Munich-Prague).
Martin Schulze Wessel’s research focuses on the history of Eastern and South Eastern Europe since the 18th century. Regionally, his focus is on the history of Russia and East Central Europe. He has studied the history of international relations, especially between Russia, Poland and Prussia-Germany, and the history of religion in the empires of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Tsarist Empire and their successor states. Currently, he is interested in the contemporary history of East Central Europe and especially in the history of Czechoslovakia.