Fellows 2025

Hiob Ludolf Fellows

Professor Dr Mirela Altić (Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia, Gotha FKTS/SP)

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

Assistant Professor Berhanu Asfaw (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in Gotha, FZG)

Ethiopian lexicography from Hiob Ludolf to the present

Associated Professor Dr Lindsay Frederick Braun (University of Oregon, in Gotha, FKTS/SP)

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

Professor Dr Kai Bremer (Free University of Berlin, in Gotha, FZG)

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

Professor Dr Michael C. Carhart (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virgina, in Gotha, FZG/FKTS/SP)

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

Dr Enali Maria De Benaggi (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, in Gotha, FKTS/SP)

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

Associate Professor Duncan Hardy (University of Central Florida, Orlando, in Gotha, FZG)

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

Dr Wiebke Leister (Royal College of Art London, in Gotha, FZG)

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

Dr Giovanni Patriarca (in Gotha, FZG)

Gasparo Scaruffi and a Monetary Chimera in Sixteenth Century