Current fields of research at the chair of Turkish Studies in Bamberg

Dr. Patrick Bartsch

• Modernization in the Ottoman Empire

• Arab provinces of the late Ottoman Empire (especially Syria and Iraq)

• Ottoman and Turkish intellectual history (especially historiography)

• Ottoman biography and prosopography

• Late-Ottoman and Turkish Memoirs and autobiography as literary artefacts and as sources for history

• Ethnicity in the Ottoman Empire and in Turkey