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Peter Hersche is a Swiss historian and university lecturer at the University of Bern (Modern General History). He specializes in the Baroque period.
Hersche first completed an apprenticeship as a businessman and practised this profession, obtaining his Matura in 1963 and then studying history, modern German literature and art history in Bern, Bonn, Vienna and Paris. After graduating (lic. phil.) in 1971, he was a university assistant in Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1973 and his habilitation in modern general history in 1982. He was then a lecturer and, from 1990, titular professor in Bern.
Hersche deals with the cultural and social history of early modern Catholicism and Baroque, popular religiousness, the social history of Baroque art and the history of Catholic enlightenment.