17 Facts About Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge.

Christopher Clark received his PhD at the University of Cambridge, having been a member of Pembroke College from 1987 to 1991.

Christopher Clark is Professor in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and, since 1991, has been a fellow of St Catharine's College, where he is currently Director of Studies in History.

In 2003, Christopher Clark was appointed lecturer in Modern European History and, in 2006, reader in Modern European History.

Christopher Clark's academic focus started with the history of Prussia, with his earlier researches concentrating on Pietism and on Judaism in Prussia as well as the power struggle, known as the Kulturkampf, between Bismarck's Prussian state and the Catholic Church.

Christopher Clark's scope has since broadened to embrace more generally the competitive relationships between religious institutions and the state in modern Europe.

Christopher Clark remains the youngest-ever recipient of the triennial prize and the only winner not to have approached his work as a mother-tongue German-speaker.

In 17 chapters covering 800 pages, Christopher Clark contends that Germany was "not the fulfillment of Prussia's destiny but its downfall".

Christopher Clark downplays the perceived uniqueness of the much-vaunted reform agenda, which was pursued by Prussia between 1815 and 1848, and believes that the political and economic significance of the German customs union, established in 1834, came to be discovered and then overstated by historians only retrospectively and in the light of much-later political developments.

However, Christopher Clark observes that the current German debate about the start of the war is obfuscated by its link to their moral repugnance at the Nazi era.

Professor Christopher Clark presented the BBC Four documentary programme "Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia".

Christopher Clark presented and narrated the 2017 ZDF documentary The Story of Europe.

Since 1998, Christopher Clark has been a series-editor of the scholarly book series New Studies in European History from Cambridge University Press.

In 2010, Christopher Clark was elected a member of the British Academy.

In 2019, Christopher Clark was embroiled in controversy surrounding his 2011 report, commissioned by the head of the Hohenzollern family, Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, on the Hohenzollern family's relations with the Nazis.

Christopher Clark acknowledged that expressions of support for the Nazis had been made by the last Kaiser's eldest son, Wilhelm, the most senior member of the former dynasty in Germany in the 1920s and the 1930s and the owner of the Hohenzollern properties.

In 2020 Christopher Clark claimed to have changed his view and more or less agreed with Malinowski.