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Born in Wolfhagen, Jürgen Heyde studied Eastern European History, Slavic Studies, and Medieval History at the Universities of Giessen, Mainz, Warsaw, and Berlin. He obtained his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1998 and completed his habilitation in December 2009.
From 1998 to 2003 he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and from 2003 to 2013 a research fellow at the Institute of History at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2014, he is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).
His research focuses on transcultural entanglements in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period, the history of Poland as well as Polish-Jewish relations from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, and the history of Northeastern Europe in the early modern period.
