Frank Lorenz Müller
Professor Frank Lorenz Müller

Professor Frank Lorenz Müller

Staatsexamen (Berlin), DPhil (Oxon.), FRHistS

 
Contact Details

E-mail - frank.muller@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462892
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914



 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

My teaching covers various aspects of European history from 1815 to the Second World War. I am particularly interested in the political and cultural history of Germany and Britain and in their mutual relationship. My research focuses on nationalism, liberalism, imperialism, militarism, foreign policy, biography and the role of monarchy throughout the nineteenth century. I look forward to discussing research projects falling into these areas with potential postgraduate students.

I have recently published a study of the German Emperor Frederick III and will develop the wider issues identified in this work through an AHRC-funded five-year project exploring the roles played by heirs to the throne in the constitutional monarchies of 19th-century Europe. The grant provides funding for a postdoctoral researcher, two fully–funded PhD studentships and two international conferences.

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Main Publications

Books

  • Our Fritz. Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany (Cambridge/Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011) [Details]
  • Britain and the German Question. Perceptions of Nationalism and Political Reform, 1830-1863 (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002) [Details]
  • Die Revolution von 1848/49 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012 [4th ed.])

Articles

  • 'The Prince, the Crypt, and the Historians: Emperor Friedrich III and the Continunity of Monarchical Geschichtspolitik in Imperial Germany', German Studies Review 35, 3 (2012), 521 - 540
  • Liberaler "Volkskaiser" und "hochgemuther Recke": die Mythen um Kaiser Friedrich III (Friedrichsruher Beiträge, vol. 42 – Friedrichsruh: Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung, 2012)
  • ‘”Perhaps also useful for our election campaign”: The Parliamentary Impasse of the Late Wilhelmine State and the British Constitutional Crisis, 1909-1911’, in: D. Geppert/R. Gerwarth (eds): Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain. Essays on Cultural Affinity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 67-87
  • ‘Man, Myth and Monuments: The Legacy of Otto von Bismarck (1866-1998)’, European History Quarterly 38 (2008), 626-636
  • The Spectre of a People in Arms: The Prussian Government and the Militarisation of German Nationalism, 1859-1864’, English Historical Review cxxii (2007), 82-104
  • Palmerston, Schwarzenberg and the Struggle for a New German Order’, in: D. Brown/M. Taylor (eds): Palmerston Studies II (Southampton: Hartley Institute, 2007), 97-118
  • "The Enlightened Views of the Prussian Monarch." Preussen als Hoffnungsträger britischer Reformvorstellungen für Deutschland, 1834–1863’, in: B. Becker/V. Czech/J. Luh (eds): Preussen, Deutschland und Europa, 1701–2001, (Groningen: INOS, 2003), 197-215
  • Imperialist Ambitions in Vormärz and Revolutionary Germany: the Agitation for German Settlement Colonies Overseas, 1840-1849’, German History 17 (1999), 346-368
  • Der Traum von der Weltmacht. Imperialistische Ziele in der deutschen Nationalbewegung von der Rheinkrise bis zum Ende der Paulskirche’, Jahrbuch der Hambach Gesellschaft 6 (1996/97), 99-183

Administrative Duties

Pro Dean (Faculty of Arts) for Curriculum and William and Mary Joint Degree Programme
Chairman, Modern History Degree Programme

Teaching Duties

Participates in the teaching of First and Second Level Modern History and offers the following Honours courses:

Also co-teaches the following Postgraduate courses:

  • Directed Reading
  • Key Issues in Modern German Historiography

 

 

Main Publications

Our Fritz

Die Revolution von 1848/9