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First Name
Laura
Last Name
Achtelstetter
Country
United Kingdom
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Affiliation
PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
Website URL
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/laura-achtelsetter, https://cambridge.academia.edu/LauraClaudiaAchtelstetter
Keywords
Modern European History, Intellectual History, History of Political Thought, German History, Prussian History,
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About Me

I completed a History/Political Science B.A. (2014) and a M.A. in Political Science (2016) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Research projects included works on National Socialism as political religion (Voegelin) and on the legitimacy of political resistance (Martin Luther).
I worked as a student assistant in the Gerlach-Archive at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Family archive of the von Gerlachs).

I completed a History/Political Science B.A. (2014) and a M.A. in Political Science (2016) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Research projects included works on National Socialism as political religion (Voegelin) and on the legitimacy of political resistance (Martin Luther).
I worked as a student assistant in the Gerlach-Archive at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Family archive of the von Gerlachs).

In my PhD research I am working on the nexus between politics and religion in early nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism. Consequently, my work includes elements of the history of German of political thought, the history of German politics, and the history of religious thought. My focus lies on the conservative network of the von Gerlach brothers and the later camarilla at the court of Frederick Wilhelm IV. of Prussia.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Germany
Expertise by Geography
Germany, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Government, Local & Regional, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion