Stephan Sander-Faes is a professor of history teaching European civilization at the University of Bergen, Norway (faculty profile: https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Stephan.Sander-Faes). His work focuses mainly on post-mediaeval (Central) Europe. He blogs semi-anonymously about European affairs at https://fackel.substack.com/ (click and sign up, it’s free). When he’s not teaching, he tends to his livestock (follow his sheep at https://bsky.app/profile/ramsesandhisgang.bsky.social).
In whatever spare time he has left, he explores our analogue, pre-internet world cataloging his late grandfather’s vintage picture postcard collection, which you may as well check out over at
The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger
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