Dr Tim Hochstrasser

Associate Professor Hochstrasser studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and gained his degrees from Cambridge University. He has also worked in a teaching and research capacity at Downing College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford and held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

Associate Professor Hochstrasser's research focuses on the two-way relationship between intellectual life and political action in the history of early modern Europe, and above all on the use made of contemporary historical and philosophical writing to legitimate and defend changing concepts of sovereignty and political structure. The major case study for this research is the European Enlightenment (c. 1680-1830), with a particular focus on France and Germany. His research has developed three linked pathways: the development of natural law discourse in the early German Enlightenment, which provided the focus for his first book, the scope and limits of eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism which he is exploring through his continuing work on the Huguenot Diaspora, and the interface between political economy and practical politics in France in the era before the French Revolution.

Other titles: Deputy Head of Department for Teaching

Expertise

Early Modern History, The Enlightenment, Intellectual History