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Curriculum vitae

Since 2016: Research Fellow for the "Hessen-Nassauische Wörterbuch" [Hesse-Nassau Dialect Dictionary] at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Since 2010: Freelance employee for the modules “Jewish Gravesites” and “Hessian Biography” at the Hesse State Historical Information System (LAGIS) of the Hesse State Office for Historical Regional Studies in Marburg

Since 2009: Member of the Hesse Historical Commission Darmstadt

Since 2003: Freelance editor, corrector

2000–2002: Teacher training in Bensheim and Friedrichsdorf

1997–1999: Research Fellow at the House of Bavarian History in Augsburg for the project “Recording the field and plot names of Bavaria” and intern at the State Exhibition “Bavaria – Germania – Europa 200 to 2000” in Regensburg

1996–1997: Research Fellow at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen in the Grimm Brothers’ German Dictionary section

1996: Scholarship from the Weimar Classicism Foundation to transcribe the early manuscripts of Achim von Arnim for a historical-critical edition of his works

1995–1996: Librarian at the departmental library of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen

1995: Completed doctoral program for the PhD

1994–1995: Archivist of the City of Staufenberg

1994: Internship at the Hesse State Archives in Darmstadt

1989–1990: Doctoral scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" [German Academic Scholarship Foundation]

1983–1993: Research Fellow for the research project "Hessisches Flurnamenarchiv" [Hesse Field and Plot Names Archive] in the Department of German Studies at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen

1977–1982: Studying German, Protestant religion, and history for the high school teacher education program at the universities of Münster and Giessen