Anuschka Tischer

Who is Anuschka Tischer?

Anuschka Tischer is a historian at the University of Würzburg. She has been a Robert Bosch Foundation Lecturer for History at the University of Riga in Latvia, and a scientific assistant at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg. A former research fellow for the edition series Acta Pacis Wesphalicae, she has published works on French diplomacy at the Congress of Westphalia and is currently doing work on the Franco-Spanish War of the 1650s.

Tischer earned her M.A. degree on 1992 with her work Magisterarbeit zu den Reformbestrebungen Kaiser Maximilians I. in Heerwesen und Kriegsorganisation des Reichs [Master's thesis on Emperor Maximilian I's attempts to reform the army and military organization of the empire]. She obtained her PhD in 1998 with her Dissertation zum außenpolitischen Wandel von Richelieu zu Mazarin am Beispiel der französischen Diplomatie beim Westfälischen Frieden [Dissertation on the change in foreign policy from Richelieu to Mazarin using the example of French diplomacy at the Peace of Westphalia]. She also wrote Französische Diplomatie und Diplomaten auf dem Westfälischen Friedenskongreß.