Matthias Bähr is a Fellow of the Kolleg from October 2025 to May 2025.
Vita
PD Dr. Matthias Bähr received his doctorate in Modern History from the University of Münster in 2011. After a postdoc at the Institute for British-Irish Studies, University College Dublin, and at the Institute of Historical Research in London, he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Dresden from 2014 to 2022, where he was in charge of the projects ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘Totes Kapital’. In 2019, he habilitated in Modern History at TU Dresden. He then took on interim professorships at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and TU Dresden.
Research Project
Die Regeln der Märkte. Der globale Handel mit Human Remains in der Frühen Neuzeit
Selected Publications
Bähr, Matthias, Konfessionelle Mehrdimensionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Irland um 1600 (= Veröffentlichungen des DHI London 88), Berlin 2023. (= Habilitation)
Bähr, Matthias/ Schober, Sarah-Maria, Totes Kapital, thematic issue of Historischen Anthropologie 30/ 3 (2022).
Bähr, Matthias/ Kühnel, Florian (Ed.), Verschränkte Ungleichheit. Praktiken der Intersektionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit (= Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Supplement 56), Berlin 2018.
Bähr, Matthias, The Power of the Spoken Word. Depositions at the Imperial Chamber Court, in: Cohen, Thomas/ Twomey, Lesley (Ed.), Spoken Word and Social Practice. Orality in Europe 1400–1700, Leiden 2016, 109–132.
Bähr, Matthias, Die Sprache der Zeugen. Argumentationsstrategien bäuerlicher Gemeinden vor dem Reichskammergericht (1693–1806) (= Konflikte und Kultur 26), Konstanz/ München 2012. (= dissertation)