Scholarship holders 2025

Ernst Herzog Fellows

Lisa Brunner (Universität Innsbruck, in Gotha FZG)

Apotheker - Sammler - Naturforscher. Die Naturaliensammlung im frühneuzeitlichen Wissenstransfer

Jenny Brys-Grün (Universität Leipzig, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

"Geschäftsmodelle und Krisen" – der wirtschaftliche Wandel und Erfolg des Perthes Verlages zwischen Nachmärz und Gründerzeit

Lena Filzen (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Die Geschichte der Wahûma: Konzeptionelle Untersuchung einer Fremdbeschreibung im Wandel

Ke Ma (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, in Gotha FZG)

Knotenpunkt Gotha: Ostasiatische Sammlung und Ausstattung in Schloss Friedenstein – Netzwerke von Sammlung, Wissen und China-Imagination in ihrer regionalen Ausstrahlung

Dr. Takele Merid Afessa (Addis Ababa University, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Mapping Ethiopian Slave Trade Routes and Markets: A Focus on the Nineteenth Century Cartography

Dr. Alba Fedeli (Universität Hamburg, in Gotha FZG)

Stratigraphic Analysis of Early Qur’anic Manuscripts: A Biography of the Collection at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

Dr. Morgan Golf-French (Turin Humanities Programme, in Gotha FZG)

Studying ‘race’ in the German Enlightenment

Dr. Giulio Greco (in Gotha FZG)

From Manuscript to Print: Jean Bodin’s Colloquium Heptaplomeres and its reception in Germany between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries

Dr Gebreyesus Teklu Bahta (Mekele University, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Geopolitics and border disputes in Northern Ethiopia and Southern Eriteria

Assistant Prof. Dr. Wojciech Kordyzon (University of Warsaw, in Gotha FZG)

Diaspora Paratexts: Networks, Topics, and Interfaces of Books by Religious Dissidents

Dr. Jochen Lingelbach (Universität Bayreuth, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Colonial Histories of Vélomobility in Africa

Dr. Despina Magkanari (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Klaproth and the circulation of Orientalist knowledge in the Romantic era

Dr. Stefan Michel (Technische Universität Dresden, in Gotha FZG)

Der unantastbare Text. Hermeneutische Strategien der Lutherbibel-Auslegung im frühneuzeitlichen Luthertum 

Assistant Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Mohamed (Ain shams University / IFAO, in Gotha FZG)

Chivalry Mamluk Manuscripts at Gotha Research Library

Dr. Micol Muttini (University of Siena, in Gotha FZG)

Dr. Romuald Valentin Nkouda Sopgui (Universitat Maroua, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Associate Prof. Dr. Ines Eben v. Racknitz (Nanjing University, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Dr. Eduardo Relly (Bundesuniversitat Santa Catarina, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Dr Martin Schneider (University of Hamburg, in Gotha FZG)

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

Dr. Julia Steinmetz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in Gotha FKTS/SP)

Hiob Ludolf Fellows

Associatet Prof. Dr. Mikhail Khorkov (Polish Academy of Sciences, Gotha FZG)

Prof. Dr. Hiram Kümper (Universität Mannheim, in Gotha, FZG)

Dr. Maria Rhode (Universität Göttingen, in Gotha, FKTS/SP)

Prof. Dr. Vera-Simone Schulz (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, in Gotha, FKTS/SP)

Dr. Cornelia Soldat (in Gotha, FZG)

Prof. Dr. Alexander Fritz Will (in Gotha, FZG/FKTS/SP)

TMWWDG scholarship holders

Dr Katja Makhotina (Bonn, in Gotha FZG)

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

Dr Janina Wellmann (Berlin, in Gotha FZG)

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

Gerda Henkel Fellowship for Global History of Ideas: Research Tandems

Dr Zahra Donyai & Dr Eleonora Travanti

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