The Historical Behaviour Studies (Historische Verhaltensforschung) were established in 1971 by August Nitschke de:August Nitschke and Henning Eichberg as a department of the University of Stuttgart.
The research of this Stuttgart school of studies in human behaviour was to a certain extent parallel to the History of Mentalities from France, to the Cultural Sociology (Kultursoziologie de:Kultursoziologie) from Germany and Denmark, and to the Historical Anthropology or Alltagsgeschichte from Germany which arose in the 1990s.