Gerald Schwedler studied history, historical auxiliary sciences, English and philosophy at the universities of Salzburg, Oxford, Rome and Heidelberg. In 2006, he received his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg with the dissertation “Herrschertreffen des Spätmittelalters”. He completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich in 2016 with a habilitation thesis titled: “Vergessen, Verändern, Verschweigen und damnatio memoriae im frühen Mittelalter”. He has been teaching at the Universities of Zurich, Constance and Heidelberg. Since 2018, he has been awarded full Professor of Late Medieval History and Economic and Social History at Kiel University.