Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2024/2025

Winchester und die "Anarchie"

AutorIn Name
Jacqueline
Perregaux
Academic writing genre
Licenciate thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Werner
Meyer
Institution
Historisches Seminar
Place
Basel
Year
1996/1997

Wind, Wetter und Politik: Institutionalisierungsprozesse der Meteorologie und Klimatologie in der Schweiz, 1860-1914.

AutorIn Name
Franziska
Hupfer
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
David
Gugerli
Institution
Neuzeit
Place
Zürich
Year
2017/2018
Abstract
Weshalb wurde der Wunsch, das Wetter zu verstehen, zu einem bundesstaatlichen Programm? Was bedeutete dies für die Institutionalisierung der Meteorologie als Wissenschaft? Und wie beeinflusste das more...

Wine and Volcanoes: Distal socio-economic impacts of big volcanic eruptions, especially on the early modern Swiss viticulture

AutorIn Name
Niklaus
Bartlome
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
laufend/en cours
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Heli
Huhtamaa
Institution
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research
Place
Bern
Year
2024/2025
Abstract

The PhD project aims to examine the socio-economic impacts of eruption-related climatic anomalies among Early Modern Swiss agrarian societies, with a special emphasis on vulnerability and more...