2020-	Doctoral Research Assistant Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg
2017-2020	Doctoral Research Assistant Medieval History and the Auxiliary Sciences of History Karl-Franzens-University of Graz
2014-2017	Lecturer Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
2012	Student Research Assistant Karl-Franzens-University of Graz

Anna Lidor-Osprian (b. 1988 in Voitsberg, Austria) studied German Studies and History at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz between 2007 until 2013. From 2013 until 2017, she lived in Israel, where she worked as a Lecturer for the Austrian Academic Exchange Program (OeAD) at the Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva. In 2017 she returned to her alma mater in Graz as a doctoral research assistant. Since October 2020, she is a doctoral research assistant at the Ruprechts-Karls-University in Heidelberg. She is currently writing her dissertation "The Lost Corpse. Constructions and Cultural Significance in Medieval Ashkenaz." under the supervision of Prof. Romedio Schmitz-Esser and Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Be’er Sheva).

Alongside her current focus in Jewish History and the cultural history of the Middle Ages, she is interested in Ottonian-Salian History, female rule in the Middle Ages, epigraphy, and Austrian history.

Selected publications

Anna Lidor-Osprian, Die jüdischen Gemeinde Wiens im Mittelalter, in: Domagoj Akrap/Astrid Peterle/Adina Seeger/Danielle Spera (Hg.), Unser Mittelalter! Die erste jüdische Gemeinde in Wien (Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Museum Judenplatz), Wien/Köln/Weimar 2021.

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Letzte Änderung: 10.05.2021