Horst Möller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Horst Möller

German historian

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1943

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, historian, university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Horst Möller (born 12 January 1943 in Breslau) is a German contemporary historian.
He is Professor of Modern History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and, from 1992 to 2011, Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte.Möller was a student of history, philosophy and German studies at the University of Göttingen and the Free University of Berlin, and earned his doctorate in 1972.
He was Deputy Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte from 1979 to 1982, and from 1982 to 1989 he was Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
He was Director of the German Historical Institute in Paris from 1989 to 1992. He has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford (1986) and Sorbonne University (1988), Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris (2002–2003).
He is a member of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.