Lars Behrisch
Department of History and Art History - Political History
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
I started working as UD (Assistant Prof.) for Political History at Utrecht University in 2009, after writing my PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin, and researching and teaching at the university of Bielefeld. I specialise in Early Modern History, particularly of Germany and France, but also of Russia. I wrote my PhD on crime and crime control in a 16th-century city and now I am about to finish a book on the political and cultural implications of the use of statistics in the 18th century. My teaching interests focus on Early Modern politics and political culture, but also include the Reformation, urban history, the history of crime and social control and the comparative history of identities.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Publications
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Soziale Kontrolle und städtische Obrigkeit: Görlitz 1450-1600 [Social Control and Urban Government: The Case of Goerlitz, 15th and 16th Centuries], Epfendorf: Bibliotheca Academica 2005
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(ed.) Vermessen, Zählen, Berechnen. Die politische Ordnung des Raums im 18. Jahrhundert [Measuring, Counting, Calculating. The Political Organisation of Space in the 18th Century], Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus 2006
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Die Berechnung der Glückseligkeit. Statistik und Politik in Deutschland und Frankreich im späten Ancien Régime [The calculation of public happiness: Statistics and politics in Germany and France during the late Ancien Regime], Ostfildern: Thorbecke 2015
