Michael Hagemeister

Who is Michael Hagemeister?

Michael Hagemeister is a contemporary German scholar, historian and slavist, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and on Sergei Nilus, who first published "The Protocols" in book form in 1905.

Hagemeister was employed at the universities of Marburg, Bochum, Basel, Innsbruck, Frankfurt, and Berlin. Hagemeister was engaged in research at the Department of History of the University of Basel and was professor at the Department of History of Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He is currently professor at the Department of East European History at Viadrina European University, Frankfurt.

Hagemeister wrote his doctoral thesis on the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov. In his current research he concentrates on the origins and early history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the life and work of the Russian religious and apocalyptic writer Sergei Nilus.

Hagemeister has authored articles, book essays, and dictionary entries, including material for the newly edited, multi-volumed encyclopedias,

Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart