Olga Keller

Olga Keller is a Lecturer at the Department of History within the Faculty of Humanities at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, where she has taught medieval history since 2009. She holds a concurrent position as a Scientific Employee and Lecturer at the Belarusian State University in Minsk since 1999. Her academic journey includes a Diplom in History and Social-Political Sciences (1993), a PhD (1999), and a Habilitation (2015) from the Belarusian State University.

Her research focuses on medieval Central and Eastern European history, specializing in the transfer and reception of German legal systems. Key interests include:

• German Ostsiedlung (eastward expansion) and its socio-legal implications
• Diffusion of German law (Sachsenspiegel, Magdeburg/Lübeck city laws) across Eastern Europe
• Socio-political structures of medieval Belarus, Lithuania, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Legal acculturation in Bohemia, Hungary, Ukraine, and Baltic regions
• Comparative analysis of medieval legal codices and their regional adaptations

Her publications (2013-2015) demonstrate concentrated expertise in German legal transmission, analyzing the Sachsenspiegel, Schwabenspiegel, and urban charters across Eastern Europe. Works frequently examine juridical hybridity in borderlands, monastic state legal systems, and trade law applications in Hanseatic contexts.

Awards and fellowships include:

• Multiple DAAD-funded research projects (1995-2013)
• Gottlieb-Daimler und Carl-Benz Stiftung Grant (1997-1999)
• Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung Scholarship (2007)
• Erasmus-Mundus-Stipendium (2008)

Research involved collaborations with Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Herder Institute Marburg, and universities in Freiburg, Halle-Wittenberg, and Berlin. No student advising or laboratory affiliations are documented.