Dr. Markus Hörsch

Researcher

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markus.hoersch@ leibniz-gwzo.de

ORCID Division of the Directorate »Transfer and Publishing«

About

Markus Hörsch studied art history, German, literature and folklore in Münster and Bamberg. He obtained his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on the burial church of Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, in Brou near Bourg-en-Bresse. He was a research assistant at Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and a researcher at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Markus Hörsch has been a researcher at the GWZO with a brief interruption (2006–2008) since 2002.
Work focus
- Visual arts and architecture of the Middle Ages and early modern period
- Cultural transfer processes in Central Europe
- Court culture
Series issuance
- Co-editor and editor-in-chief of the GWZO series Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia
Teaching

Markus Hörsch has taught various courses at the Institute of Art History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Researching Transnational Cultural History, 1300-1570

Heritage and Canon

(Kultur und Imagination)

This project sets out to explore Eastern Europe’s art history in the pre-modern age. Drawing on selected objects, it aims to bring to light the area’s shared cultural history and its complex development. The focus is on the large expanse of land between the Baltic, the Black Sea and southeast Europe from 1300 to 1570, when both cultural cornerstones and tensions developed that would be decisive for the region’s modern history.