Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Nordeuropa-Institut

Bernd Henningsen

Since 2010 honorary professor at the Department of Northern European Studies.

Born 1945 in Flensburg, Northern Germany; studied political science, Nordic philology, philosophy, and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich; M.A. in 1972; PhD in 1974 (thesis: Die Politik des Einzelnen. Zur Genese der skandinavischen Ziviltheologie); qualified as professor in 1984 on the basis of a second thesis, in Germany generally referred to as Habilitation (Der Wohlfahrtsstaat Schweden); 1985 Theodor-Eschenburg-price; visiting professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and guest lecturer/professor at the universities of Zurich, Hamburg (University of the Bundeswehr), Trier, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Aarhus, Odense and the Free University of Berlin (FU); 1991 awardee of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation and the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Fund (= fellow at the Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Study of the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala; 1992-2002 professor of Scandinavian studies and (founding) director of the Department of Northern European Studies, head of the Baltic Sea School, Berlin; 1998 the Norwegian order of St. Olav; 1999 the Swedish order of the Polar Star; 2001 the Danish order of the Dannebrog; 2002 professor of political science, culture and politics in Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald; 2002-03 director of the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald; since 2003 guest professor at the Centre for German Studies, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, and the International Science Centre (ISC) at Örebro University; 2005-10 honorary professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen and professor of Scandinavian and Cultural Studies at the Department for Northern European Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin; retired since 2010, honorary professor at the Department for Northern European Studies.