Karin Friedrich is a German historian, currently a senior lecturer in history at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

 King's College

King's College, Aberdeen

King's College in Old Aberdeen, Scotland is a formerly independent university founded in 1495 and an integral part of the University of Aberdeen...

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Friedrich received an M.A. in History and Political Science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1989 and a
Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 in 1995.
From 1995-2004, she worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London/University College London. 2001-6, she was co-editor of the academic journal German History http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/.
At Aberdeen she is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/ She is also member of several editorial boards (see links below).

Specialising in Polish, German and Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

n history, she wrote The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia

Royal Prussia

Royal Prussia was a Region of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . Polish Prussia included Pomerelia, Chełmno Land , Malbork Voivodeship , Gdańsk , Toruń , and Elbląg . It is distinguished from Ducal Prussia...

, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772, shedding light on the history of the Western part of Prussia in which mainly German-speaking Protestants were subject to the elected King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

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She also stayed at the Free University of Berlin

Free University of Berlin

Freie Universität Berlin is one of the leading and most prestigious research universities in Germany and continental Europe. It distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. It is the largest of the four universities in Berlin. Research at the university is focused on the...

 in 2000, gained a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and several guest scholarships (University of Greifswald in 2007, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuettel), currently serves as advisory committee member of the German Historical Institute

German Historical Institute

German Historical Institute are five independent academic research institutes situated in Rome, London, Washington, D.C., Warsaw and Moscow, dedicated to the study of historical relations between Germany and the host countries in which they are based, along with four other institutions, in Paris,...

in Warsaw and as member of the Working Group on the Baroque, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuettel http://www.hab.de/forschung/arbeitskreise/barock.htm.

Work (Selection)

• The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-521-58335-7 http://books.google.com/books?id=qsBco40rMPcC
• Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-national Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1569-1795 (Leiden: Brill, 2008) http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=26230
• The Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of Berlin. Brandenbburg 1700, co-authorship with Sara Smart (Ashgate, 2010) http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754609971
• Festivals in Germany and Europe: New Approaches to European Festival Culture, ed. by Karin Friedrich (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) 396 pp

Articles :

• Polish-Lithuanian Political Thought, 1450-1700: in Howell Lloyd, Glenn Burgess, Simon Hodson (eds), History of European Political Thought, 1450-1700 (Yale University Press, 2007), 409-47.
• German History 22:3 (2004), special issue: Polish Views of German History articles: "Pomorze" or "Preussen": Polish Perspectives on early modern Prussian History, pp. 190–217, and Introduction (co-authored with Klaus Zernack), 155-168.
• Zwischen zwei Adlern. Kulturelle und ideologische Einflüsse Polen-Litauens auf das herzogliche Preußen vor 1701 [Between Two Eagles. Cultural and ideological influences of Poland-Lithuania on Ducal Prussia], in: Preußen in Ostmitteleuropa [Prussia in East Central Europe], ed. by Matthias Weber (Oldenburg, 2003), 115-141.
• Nationsbewußtsein im Schlesien der frühen Neuzeit [National identity in early modern Silesia], in: Die Grenzen der Nationen. Nationale Identitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit, edited by Kai Struve and Philip Ther (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2002), 19-44.
• The Development of Prussian Towns, 1720-1815, in P. Dwyer, ed., The Rise of Prussia: Re-thinking Prussian History, 1700-1830, (London: Adison, Wesley, Longman, 2001), 129-150

External links

• University of Aberdeen, King's College, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy Staff
• DHI Warschau
• German History Society http://www.germanhistorysociety.org/
• Czasy Nowozytne http://www.czasynowozytne.pl/redakcja.htm
• Central Europe http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/ceurope.htm
• Zapiski Historyczne http://www.tnt.torun.pl/zapiski-komitet.html