Christian Lübke
Christian Lübke is a German historian.
Life and career
Christian Lübke studied Slavic Studies and Eastern European History at the University of Munich and the University of Giessen from 1972 to 1980. His academic tutor was Herbert Ludat. In 1980, he obtained his doctorate in Giessen with a thesis titled Novgorod in Russian Literature. From 1980 to 1987, he worked as a research assistant at Giessen. He then served as a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin from 1987 to 1992. In 1996, he completed his habilitation with a study on Foreigners in Eastern Europe at the Free University of Berlin. Since 1996, Lübke has been a project manager at the Centre for Humanities in Eastern European History and Culture, now the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig.From 1998 to 2007, Lübke taught as a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Greifswald. From 2007 to 1 November 2021, he was director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe and professor of Eastern Central European history at the University of Leipzig. Lübke is co-editor of the Journal for East Central European Studies and a member of the. In 2009, he was elected a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
His research focuses on spatial perception, work, and economics in Eastern Central Europe, the history of science, and the history of Germania Slavica. In the 1980s, he contributed to the regesta "On the History of the Slavs on the Elbe and Oder" from 900 to 1057, an initiative led by Herbert Ludat. His studies Fremde im östlichen Europa and Das östliche Europa are considered pioneering works for medieval research on Eastern Central Europe in Germany.