Herzog Ernst Fellows 2025

Current Ernst Herzog Fellows

Elizabeth Carleton (University of California, in Gotha FZG)

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

Sophia Feist (University of Cambridge, in Gotha FZG)

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

Daniel Haas (University of Hamburg, in Gotha FZG)

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

Ioan-Alexandru Liciu (University of Bucharest, in Gotha FZG)

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

Melinda Michel (University of Bonn, in Gotha FZG)

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

Charlotte Prauß (Justus Liebig University Giessen, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

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

Illia Rudyk (University of Wroclaw, in Gotha FZG)

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

Tobias Wagemann (Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-PSL), in Gotha FKTS/SP))

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

Dr Teferi Mekonnen Bekele (Addis Ababa University, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

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

Dr Marcello Cattaneo (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, in Gotha FZG)

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

Dr Dramane Koné (University of Alassane Ouattara, in Gotha FZG)

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

Dr Filippo Marchetti (University of Pisa, in Gotha FZG)

Giordano Bruno's manuscripts in the German Enlightenment

Dr Wenrui Zhao (Cornell University, in Gotha FZG)

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

Publication list of the scholarship holders of the Herzog-Ernst-Scholarship-Programme of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

The results from the research of the HES-scholarship holders are summarised in the following list of publications.