Research interests
G. W. Leibniz, Early Modern Intellectual History, History of political ideas in East-Central Europe

Projects
Johann Christian von Boineburg im Kontext der Gelehrtenrepublik
Die Genese des christlichen Naturrechts. Die Grotius-Rezeption bei Johann Christian von Boineburg und seinem KreisInfluence in politics, influence in the republic of letters: Johann Christian von Boineburg’s relations with Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, 1661–63From Venice and Rome to Mainz: Italian Books from Humanism to Counter-Reformation in the Library of Baron Johann Christian von Boineburg

Selected bibliography concerning Natural law

• Books

(ed.) Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe, Early Modern Natural Law: Studies and Sources, (Leiden: Brill, 2023), xix + 403 pages.

• Articles

‘Leibniz and East-Central Europe’ in Companion to Leibniz’s Political Thought and His Political Activities, ed. Luca Basso, Jaime de Salas Ortueta, Wenchao Li, and Hartmut Rudolph (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter[(forthcoming]).

(with Knud Haakonssen) ‘Approaches to natural law in East-Central Europe’ in Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe, ed. Gábor Gángó (Leiden: Brill, 2023), p. vii–xv.

‘Ernst König and the teaching of natural law at the academic gymnasia of Royal Prussia’ in Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe, ed. Gábor Gángó (Leiden: Brill, 2023), p. 87–131.

(with Péter Balázs) ‘Protestant schooling and natural law in Transylvania and Hungary’ in Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe, ed. Gábor Gángó (Leiden: Brill, 2023), p. 224–275.

’Johann Christian von Boineburg, Samuel Pufendorf, and the foundation myth of modern natural law’ in History of European Ideas 49 (2023/3), p. 523–542.

Gángó, Gábor, "Ernst König" in Natural Law 1625-1850: Database, ed. Mikkel Munthe Jensen (Erfurt, Gotha, Jena: ThULB, 2019-), [Online Database], Canonical URL: https://naturallawdatabase.thulb.uni-jena.de/item/natlaw_92.

’The formation of Leibniz’ mature ethics and his Specimen Polonorum’ in Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought, ed. László Kontler and Mark Somos (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p.142–168.

'The Correspondence of Johann Christian von Boineburg’ in Early Modern Letters Online [EMLO], ed. Howard Hotson and Miranda Lewis (2021), URL: http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=johann-christian-von-boineburg.