Scholarship holders 2025

Perfecting Galilieo: Collaborations Between Artist and Astronomer in 17th-Century Europe

Tailoring Politics: Liveries and Courtly Competition in the Holy Roman Empire, 1470-1550

Gotha's Oriental activities as a model and knowledge resource for the Hallisch-Pietist "care for the old Oriental Christianity" in the 18th century

The Early Modern Science of Petrification, locality, and the Gotha region (ca. 1650-1700)

Examination of Johann of Saxony's medical manuscripts in the context of humanist knowledge networks

Knowledge on the move - or: How knowledge came to the University of Göttingen (1880 to the 1930s)

The Kyivan Metropolitanate and the Eastern Churches, Perception of Eastern Patriarchates by the Orthodox elite of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-17th centuries

Colonial Policing in the Pacific Ocean : A Comparative Study of British and German New Guinea (1884-1921)

A Historical Analysis of Changes in the Northern Ethiopian Enviroment: Tracing the Evolution of Deforestation and Desertification using Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Gotha Historical Maps

Beyond "Christian Kabbalah": Jewish "mysteria" and Protestant theologies around the turn of the 18th century

Fairy tale motifs and concepts of power in 18th century Germany

Giordano Bruno's manuscripts in the German Enlightenment

Courtly theatre politics in the context of cultural transfer. The Gotha court theatre 1775-1779

Mining and Medicine between Central Europe and West Sumatra, 1650-1750

Tracing Jesuit geographical knowledge of South and South-East Asia: the intersections of Jesuit science and traditional non-Western knowledge in the German visual imaginary

Ethiopian lexicography from Hiob Ludolf to the present

Current book project: Development of cartography and related settler-borne knowledge in South Africa from the 1850s to 1910

The European biblical tragedy and the German tragedy. The history of a failed reception

Research Library. Simon Pelloutier and the Celtic Century; Gotha Perthes Collection. Conceptual History of the Variscan Orogeny

A closer look at German medical cartography. The production of the Seuchen Atlas (1942-194

The discourse of the 'Turkish threat' and the 'defence of Christendom' and the transformation of the Holy Roman Empire ca. 1453-1529

Serpent Symbolism: Ruben's 'Brazen Serpent' in the context of the (Counter)Reformation

Gasparo Scaruffi and a Monetary Chimera in Sixteenth Century

Early Career Scholars in the Anglo-German Enlightenment, 1700-1780

Laboratories of Conscience. Courts of Conscience as a Transconfessional and Transcultural Phenomenon in the Russian Empire 1775 - 1866

Au-delà de l'art et de l'Europe: Houdon in Gotha: Science, Manufacture, Networks

Transmission of Knowledge in Early Modern Literary Culture: Philip Sidney and Continental Scholars (with focus on Michal Slavata, Baron of Chlum and Koschumberg)

Genesis, transmission and reception of the "Īsāġūjī al-Abharīs" from the Middle Ages to the late Renaissance, 1.11.2025-30.04.2026