


The range of offered courses are also taught by historians from other institutes, such as from the department for South Asian history of the South Asia Institute, the Cluster Asia and Europe, Transcultural Studies, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, the Institute of History of Medicine of the Medical Faculty as well as the nearby Heidelberg College for Jewish Studies. The Department of History has own professorships for individual subject-specific and regional specialisations: American History (with the Schurman library), Eastern European History (also with own library), Social and Economic History as well as Public History, Comparative National History from a European perspective (with the library of the Institute of the History of Franconia and the Palatinate). The Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy is a separate department. Medieval as well as Modern and Contemporary History are represented in the Department of History in Heidelberg. Pre- and protohistory constitutes an independent subject that covers the periods without written testimony and is associated with archaeology.In addition to chronological organisation, the subject can also be distinguished geographically. Heidelberg University essentially distinguishes between the historical periods ancient history (Greek and Roman history), medieval history (early, high, and late medieval history), modern history (1500-1900 - early modern and modern history) and contemporary history (as of 1900 - contemporary history). The subject History is chronologically subdivided into antiquity, the middle ages and modernity.
