Prof. Dr. Stephan Laux – About

  • Since April 2022: Dean of Faculty III at the University of Trier
  • April 2020 – April 2022: Vice Dean of Faculty III at the University of Trier
  • Since October 2012: Full Professor (W3) of Historical Regional Studies in the Department of History at the University of Trier (Faculty III), succeeding Prof. Franz Irsigler
  • 14 April 2009: Public inaugural lecture and appointment as Privatdozent at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (venia legendi in Modern History, Contemporary History, and Regional History)
  • August 2008 – September 2012: Personal advisor to the Rector of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • April 2008: Submission of habilitation thesis at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • August 2006 – July 2008: Academic advisor at the Rhineland Regional Council (Landschaftsverband Rheinland)
  • Winter Semester 2005/2006: Visiting lecturer at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • 1999–2006: Research assistant at the Chair for Rhenish Regional History and Early Modern History (Department of History VIII)
    Spring 1999: PhD (Dr. phil.) awarded for a dissertation on the history of the Reformation in the Rhineland [link]
  • April 1996 – End of 1998: Doctoral scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Graduate Funding Programme
  • October 1994 – September 1995: Research associate at the Chair for Pomeranian History and Regional Studies (Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald)
  • April 1994 – September 1994: Research associate at the Chair for Rhenish Regional History and Early Modern History (Department of History VIII)
  • 12 April 1994: Awarded Magister Artium
  • 1989/1990: One-year study visit at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • From 1987: Studied History and German Studies at (Heinrich Heine) University Düsseldorf