Peter Schöttler (born 1950) is the research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and honorary professor at the Free University in Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut). He has had guest professorships at Princeton and in Vienna. Since 2008 he has been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Numerous publications on German and French history as well as on the history of science. Recently edited Fernand Braudel’s war lectures: Geschichte als Schlüssel zur Welt (Klett-Cotta, 2013).