Malte Fuhrmann is a historian of the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, and Southeast Europe. Having received his degree and PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, he has taught in Istanbul, Bochum, and Konstanz and worked at research centers in Istanbul, Berlin, and Bucharest. He has written extensively on the history of German-Turkish relations, colonialism, Mediterranean historiography, public memory, and urban culture. His present research concentrates on transport infrastructure and hegemony in Southeast Europe and West Asia.
His publications include Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, Cambridge: University Press 2020/2022; Konstantinopel – Istanbul. Stadt der Sultane und Rebellen (Constantinople – Istanbul: City of Sultans and Rebels), Frankfurt (M.): S. Fischer 2019; and “The ‘Veins and Arteries of the Country:’ Imagined and Actual Exclusion from Railway Connectivity in Bulgaria, 1878–1908,” Journal of Transport History 45 (3/2024), 646–670.