Prof. Dr. ret. Christian Lübke

Christian Lübke studied Slavic Studies and Eastern European History at the Universities of Munich and Giessen. He completed his doctorate in Giessen with a study entitled ‘Novgorod in Russian Literature (up to the Decembrists)’, published by Siedler in 1983. He engaged in research activities at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, then at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin and at the Historical Commission of Berlin. In 1996, he completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin on the topic "Strangers in Eastern Europe: From societies without a state to nationalised societies (9th-11th centuries)", published by Böhlau in 2011. From 1996 to 2007, he was Project Manager at the GWZO and from 1998 to 2007, Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Greifswald.

Christian Lübke was Director of the GWZO and Professor of East-Central European History at the University of Leipzig from 2007 to 2021.

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Collegium Carolinum (Munich)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hannah Arendt Institute (Dresden)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Herder Institute (Marburg)
• Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class; co-opted on 13 February 2009
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the East Prussian Cultural Foundation (Ellingen/Lüneburg)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Polish Advanced Studies PIAS (Warsaw)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Międzyuczelniane Naukowe Centrum Badawcze »Filioque«

• Medieval History of Central and Eastern Europe
• History of Germania Slavica
• History of relations between Germany, Poland and Russia
• Mobility in the Middle Ages
• Names and history

• Co-editor of the »Handbook of Art History in East Central Europe«
• Co-editor of the GWZO's annual magazine »Mitropa«
• Co-editor of the GWZO series »Research on the History and Culture of East Central Europe«
• Co-editor of the GWZO series »Armenians in Eastern Europe«

Christian Lübke has taught courses at the Department of History at Leipzig University.