Education
In History and Political Science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in History from Georgetown University in 1995.
historian university professor
In History and Political Science from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in History from Georgetown University in 1995.
Friedrich received an Master of Arts From 1995-2004, she worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London/University College London. From 2001-2006, she was co-editor of the academic journal German History. At Aberdeen she is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies.
Specialising in Polish, German and Prussian history, she wrote The Other Prussia.
The Other Prussia. Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569–1772, Cambridge, 2000,
Citizenship and Identity in a Multi-national Commonwealth: Poland-Lithuania in Context, 1569-1795 (Leiden: Brill, 2009)
The Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of Berlin. Brandenburg 1700, co-authorship with Sara Smart (Ashgate, 2010)
Festivals in Germany and Europe: New Approaches to European Festival Culture, educated by Karin Friedrich (Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) 396 pp
Brandenburg-Prussia, 1466 - 1806 Palgrave McMillan 2012, as part of Studies in European History,
Articles
190–217, and Introduction (co-authored with Klaus Zernack), 155-168.
Zwischen zwei Adlern. Kulturelle und ideologische Einflüsse Polen-Litauens auf das herzogliche Preußen vor 1701, in: Preußen in Ostmitteleuropa, educated by Matthias Weber (Oldenburg, 2003), 115-141.
Nationsbewußtsein im Schlesien der frühen Neuzeit, in: Die Grenzen der Nationen.
Nationale Identitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit, edited by Kai Struve and Philip Ther (Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2002), 19-44. The Development of Prussian Towns, 1720-1815, in P. Dwyer, educated, The Rise of Prussia: Re-thinking Prussian History, 1700-1830, (London: Adison, Wesley, Longman, 2001), 129-150.
Polish-Lithuanian Political Thought, 1450-1700: in Howell Lloyd, Glenn Burgess, Simon Hodson (eds), History of European Political Thought, 1450-1700 (Yale University Press, 2007), 409-47. German History 22:3 (2004), special issue: Polish Views of German History articles: "Pomorze" or "Preussen": Polish Perspectives on early modern Prussian History, pp.
She is also member of several editorial boards (see links below). She also stayed at the Free University of Berlin in 2000, gained a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and several guest scholarships (University of Greifswald in 2007, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuettel), currently serves as advisory committee member of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and as member of the Working Group on the Baroque, Herzog August Library, Wolfenbuettel.