Anuschka Tischer (born 30 July 1968 in

Arnsberg Arnsberg (; wep, Arensperg) is a town in the Hochsauerland county, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Hoch ...

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) is a historian at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

. She has been a Robert Bosch Foundation Lecturer for History at the

University of Latvia University of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Universitāte, shortened ''LU'') is a state-run university located in Riga, Latvia established in 1919. The ''QS World University Rankings'' places the university between 801st and 1000th globally, seventh ...

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, and a scientific assistant at the Philipps-Universität in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

. A former research fellow for the edition series '' Acta Pacis Wesphalicae'', she has published works on French diplomacy at the

Congress of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (german: Westfälischer Friede, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peac ...

and is currently doing work on the Franco-Spanish War of the 1650s. Tischer earned her M.A. degree on 1992 with her work ''Magisterarbeit zu den Reformbestrebungen Kaiser Maximilians I. in Heerwesen und Kriegsorganisation des Reichs'' aster's thesis on Emperor Maximilian I's attempts to reform the army and military organization of the empire She obtained her PhD in 1998 with her ''Dissertation zum außenpolitischen Wandel von Richelieu zu Mazarin am Beispiel der französischen Diplomatie beim Westfälischen Frieden'' issertation on the change in foreign policy from Richelieu to Mazarin using the example of French diplomacy at the Peace of Westphalia She also wrote ''Französische Diplomatie und Diplomaten auf dem Westfälischen Friedenskongreß. Außenpolitik unter Richelieu und Mazarin'' rench diplomacy and diplomats at the peace congress of Westphalia: foreign policy under Richelieu and Mazarin published in 1999. Alongside

Derek Croxton Charles Derek Croxton (born 1969) is an American historian. He authored several articles on military and diplomatic aspects of the Thirty Years' War. Croxton wrote '' Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and The Congress of Westpha ...

, she wrote the critically acclaimed '' The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary''.

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Curriculum Vitae
- In German
Reviews of ''A Historical Dictionary''
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