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Appointment: Caspar Hirschi

Dr. Caspar Hirschi has been Full Professor of History at the HSG’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences since 1 August 2012.

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Diploma assistant at the University of Fribourg

Research fellow at the University of Cambridge

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Successor to Prof. Dr. Peter Sieferle

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