Malte Rehbein

Prof. Dr. Malte Rehbein is a German academic specializing in Digital Humanities and Medieval History. Currently serving as Chair of Computational Philology and Modern German Literary History at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg's Faculty of Philosophy, he also directs the Research Center for Digital Editing and coordinates the Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (ESF Research Networking Program).

• Assistant Professor of History / Faculty Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2012)
• Director of the Research Center for Digital Editing, University of Würzburg (since 2009)
• Scientific Coordinator, Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (since 2011)

His research focuses on digital documentology, computational philology, and the intersection of historical data analysis with medieval studies. He has contributed extensively to digital palaeography through workshops at Schloss Dagstuhl (2012) and the University of Würzburg (2011), and pioneered the application of analytical visualization techniques in historical research.

Malte Rehbein has held visiting scholar positions at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (University of Victoria, 2011) and lectured at international institutions including the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and Leipzig University. He previously worked as a Marie Curie Research Fellow (2007-2009) and in corporate roles at Siemens AG and T-Systems.

• PhD (magna cum laude) in History, University of Göttingen (2009)
• Magister Artium in History and Mathematics, University of Göttingen (1993-2000)
• Business Administration studies, Open University Hagen (2002-2003)

His work integrates computational approaches with traditional philological methods, particularly in medieval manuscript studies. He has received multiple international grants and participated in key Digital Humanities initiatives, including the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and ESF Exploratory Workshop on Digital Palaeography (2011).