Historians in conversation - Dr Henning Jürgens

How do historians build their career, what motivates them and how they deal with professional and personal challenges? What shapes their professional path? Dr Michael Green from the Faculty of Philosophy and History welcomes you to his podcast, where he will be inviting interesting guests to explore their stories.

Dr Henning Jürgens, academic researcher at the Department of Religious History, IEG-Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. In this episode, the conversation revolves around the questions of shaping one’s life perception based on childhood experiences and their influence on future life choices, academic career as a researcher in Germany and the various challenges and possibilities one faces while developing an own research portfolio. 
For Dr Jürgens’s publications, check out his profile at: https://www.ieg-mainz.de/en/institute/people/juergens