Michael North (1954) Giessen’de tarih ve Slav dilleri eğitimi almış; Hamburg, Kiel, Bielefeld ve Rostock üniversitelerinde ders vermiştir. 1995’ten beri Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald’da profesör ve Modern Tarih Bölümü Başkanı’dır. Yayınlanan diğer kitapları: Das Geld und seine Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart (Münih 1994), La storia del denaro (Asti 1998), From the North Sea to the Baltic: Essays in Commercial, Monetary and Agrarian History, 1500-1800 (Aldershot 1996), Geschichte der Niederlande (Münih 1997, 2003, 2007),Cultural Exchange between Western Europe and the Baltic Region in the Early Modern Period [Martin Krieger’le birlikte yayına hazırladı] (Köln-Viyana 2004), Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment(Aldershot 2008), Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900 (Surrey 2010), Geschichte der Ostsee. Handel und Kulturen (Münih 2011), The Expansion of Europe, 1250-1500(Manchester 2012).
