Chair for Medieval History (Jaspert) Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert
Contact
Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert
2. floor, room 227
Tel.: +49 (0)6221/54-2789
Email: nikolas.jaspert@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Consultation hour:
During the lecture period of the the winter term 2025/26, consultation hours will be held weekly on the following date: Tue., 11:00 to 12:00.
During the lecture-free period the consultation hours will be held on the following dates:
- February 10, 2026: 11:00 to 12:00
- February 23, 2026: 16:00 to 17:00
- March 4, 2026: 10:00 to 11:00
- March 31, 2026: 10:00 to 11:00 --> exclusively online:
https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/jas-37u-awj
Consultation will be offered face-to-face.
Main areas of interest and research
History of the Mediterranean, particularly of the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages; transcultural entanglements; history of religious orders; religious violence; German-Spanish relations.
Curriculum Vitae
Nikolas Jaspert was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1962 and pursued his academic studies in history, Hispanic studies and art history at the Free University of Berlin. In 1995, he was awarded his doctoral degree by the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Free University of Berlin, where he worked as a Research Assistant and Assistant Lecturer until 1998. From 1998 to 2005, he was Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Rat and Akademischer Oberrat) at the History Deprtament of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was appointed Professor of Medieval History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2005. Since 2013, he holds a Chair for Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg.
Jaspert is a co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung since 2009 and member of the scientific advisory boards of several academic journals, including Anuario de Estudios Medievales (since 2002), Imago Temporis, Aragón en la Edad Media, and Medievalismo (since 2008), Potestas (since 2009), Edad Media. Revista de Historia (since 2010), Espacio – Tiempo – Forma (since 2014), Revue Mabillon (since 2016), En la España Medieval (since 2017), De Medio Aevo (since 2018), Intus-Legere Historia (since 2019), and Al-Masāq (since 2020). He also co-edits the book series Geschichte und Kultur der Iberischen Welt, Outremer, Spätmittelalterstudien, Heidelberger Abhandlungen zur Mittleren und Neueren Geschichte, Neue Folge, and Heidelberger Forschungen.
In 2008, Jaspert was elected corresponding member of the Humanities Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he served as a board member of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Dynamiken der Religionsgeschichte zwischen Asien und Europa” at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since 2009, he is a member—and from 2019 to 2025, chairman—of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte. Between 2009 and 2013, he directed the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. From 2011 to 2019, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute in Rome, serving as its chairman from 2016 to 2019. Jaspert presided over the Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée from 2013 to 2017. From 2017 to 2019, he co-directed the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg, and since 2017, he has co-directed the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. He was a member of the Humanities Panel of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from 2018 to 2026 and has been co-director of the Heidelberg Centre for Ibero-American Studies since 2019. In 2020, he was elected to the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
At the University of Heidelberg, he has been actively involved in university self-administration, serving on numerous committees and bodies, including the Research Council of the Field of Focus 3, the Research and Strategy Commission, the Planning Group for Research Data Management, the Study Commission of the Faculty of Philosophy, the Council for Graduate Studies, the Heidelberg Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences (HGGS), the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the Department of History, the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the Medieval Master’s Programme, the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, the Board of Directors and Admissions Committee of the Heidelberg Centre for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS), the Board of Trustees of the Heidelberg International Science Forum, the heiDOCS Commission, the Research Centre for History and Cultural Heritage, and the Advisory Board of the university’s research magazine, Ruperto Carola.
