Ruling the Waves: Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European World Picture, C. 1500

Harald Gerhard Heinrich Otto Kurt Kleinschmidt was born (1949) and educated in Germany. After his Habilitation in 1985 he worked from 1986 till 1989 as a Privatdozent for the University of Stuttgart and from 1989 till 2000 as a Jokyôju (Associate Professor) of the history of international relations for the University of Tsukuba. Since 2000 he is working as a Kyôju (Full Professor) for the Graduate School of International Political Economy of the University of Tsukuba and as a Heininkyôju (Adj. Professor) for the Graduate School of Arts en Sciences of the University of Tokyo.