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  • Ulf Brunnbauer's research revolves around the social history and historical anthropology of Southeast Europe since the nineteenth century.

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    Christopher Columbus

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    Introduction

    Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator and adventurer who was born in the Republic of Genoa between August 25 and October 31, 1451. He made four remarkable journeys across the Atlantic Ocean under the patronage of the Catholic Monarchs, Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Spain. These journeys marked the beginning of European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. The Latin Christophorus Columbus is the source of the English name Christopher Columbus. Columbus, who grew up on the coast of Ligurian, went to sea at an early age and made several trips from the British Isles to what is now Ghana. After being married to Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, he had Diego, a son. Columbus was primarily self-taught and had a solid understanding of history, astronomy, and geography. He sought to make money from the spice trade and was driven by a scheme to discover a western sea passage to the East Indies.

    Following tenacious advocacy and the end of the Granada War, Columbus was able to obtain support from the Catholic Monarchs. He sailed in August of 1492 with three ships, arriving in the Americas on October 12 and bringing an end to the pre-Columbian period. Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas, was the locat

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    Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer

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    After completing his PhD in History at the University of Graz in 1999 with a thesis on household structures and local economies in the Rhodope Mountains in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Ulf Brunnbauer joined the Institute for East European Studies (OEI) at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) as an assistant professor (C1) in 2003. He was awarded a habilitation by FU Berlin in 2006 with a study on social policy in communist Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989. In April 2008, he took over the chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg, and along with it the position of director of the Institute for Southeast European Studies (SOI). Since January 2012, he has been executive director of the IOS and since July 2017, its first full-time academic director after the IOS was accepted into the Leibniz Association. Ulf Brunnbauer is also spokesperson of the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" and of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studi