Eva Schlotheuber

Eva Schlotheuber studied at the University of Göttingen and the University of Copenhagen. In 1994, she received her doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation entitled Die Franziskaner in Göttingen. Die Geschichte des Klosters und seiner Bibliothek (The Franciscans in Göttingen. The history of the monastery and its library), supervised by Hartmut Hoffmann. From 1999 to 2001, she was a research assistant to Claudia Märtl at the Technical University of Braunschweig, and then in 2001 at LMU Munich. In 2003, she completed her habilitation there with a thesis on the life of nuns in the late Middle Ages.

In 2003, she was senior assistant at the LMU Munich and held professorships at TU Braunschweig and Marburg University. From 2007 to 2010, Schlotheuber taught as professor of Medieval History and auxiliary sciences at the University of Münster. Since 2010 she holds the Chair of Medieval History at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf as successor to Johannes Laudage.

Since 2014, she has been a full member of the Zentraldirektion (central management) of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and since 2016 a member of the Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterliche Geschichte. Since the 51st Deutscher Historikertag (Biennial Convention of German Historians) in Hamburg in 2016, she has been President of the German Historical Association.

In 2020, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.