Anuschka Tischer (born 30 July 1968 in

Arnsberg Arnsberg (; ) is a town in the Hochsauerland county, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg (region), Arnsberg administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Ho ...

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) is a historian at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

. She has been a Robert Bosch Foundation Lecturer for History at the

University of Latvia University of Latvia (, shortened ''LU'') is a public research university located in Riga, Latvia. The university was established in 1919. History The University of Latvia, initially named as the Higher School of Latvia () was founded on Se ...

Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni ...

, and a scientific assistant at the Philipps-Universität in

Marburg Marburg (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has ...

. A former research fellow for the edition series '' Acta Pacis Wesphalicae'', she has published works on French diplomacy at the

Congress of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, c ...

and is currently doing work on the Franco-Spanish War of the 1650s. Tischer earned her M.A. degree on 1992 with her work ''Magisterarbeit zu den Reformbestrebungen Kaiser Maximilians I. in Heerwesen und Kriegsorganisation des Reichs'' aster's thesis on Emperor Maximilian I's attempts to reform the army and military organization of the empire She obtained her PhD in 1998 with her ''Dissertation zum außenpolitischen Wandel von Richelieu zu Mazarin am Beispiel der französischen Diplomatie beim Westfälischen Frieden'' issertation on the change in foreign policy from Richelieu to Mazarin using the example of French diplomacy at the Peace of Westphalia She also wrote ''Französische Diplomatie und Diplomaten auf dem Westfälischen Friedenskongreß. Außenpolitik unter Richelieu und Mazarin'' rench diplomacy and diplomats at the peace congress of Westphalia: foreign policy under Richelieu and Mazarin published in 1999. Alongside Derek Croxton, she wrote the critically acclaimed '' The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary''.

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Curriculum Vitae
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Reviews of ''A Historical Dictionary''
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