Miriam Schneider
Email: mms8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Thesis Title: The “Sailor Prince” in the Age of Empire: Creating a Monarchical Brand in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Supervisor: Dr. Frank Lorenz Mueller
Miriam obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in history from the University of Bayreuth, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil-thesis entitled “Royal Naval Education, ‘Sailor Princes’, and the Re-Invention of the Monarchy, 1850-1918” (Cambridge, 2011). She is currently expanding this thesis into a PhD-project comparing the systemic function and public role of “Sailor Princes” within the monarchical systems, political and popular cultures of nineteenth-century Britain, Germany, Denmark, and Greece. Her research is supported by a Douglas and Gordon Bonnyman Scholarship in the Arts.
Miriam’s research interests are centred on the history of nineteenth-century Europe, with a special focus on British, German, and Danish history as well as on the history of Anglo-German relations. Her main areas of research include: monarchy and royal education, social and professional networking in education and science, and the ideological frameworks of nineteenth-century historiography.
Academic papers:
- ‘“Young, brave, and true, he wears the blue” – The concept of the “Sailor Prince” in nineteenth-century European monarchies’, held at the conference “European Constitutional Monarchies”, Copenhagen, 23 August 2012
- ‘“Auf der Kommandobrücke steht der Zollern-Admiral“: Prinz Heinrich als Populärgestalt im Deutschen Kaiserreich‘, Landesarchiv Schleswig, 10 January 2013
Published papers:
- ‘“Auf der Kommandobrücke steht der Zollern-Admiral“: Prinz Heinrich als Populärgestalt im Deutschen Kaiserreich‘, in: Hering, Reiner/Schmidt, Christina (eds.), Prinz Heinrich von Preußen. Großadmiral, Kaiserbruder, Technikpionier (forthcoming)