Scholarship holders 2025

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 FKTS/SP)

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

Geopolitics and border disputes in Northern Ethiopia and Southern Eriteria

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

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

Dr Wenrui Zhao (Cornell University, in Gotha FZG)

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

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

TMWWDG scholarship holders

Dr Natasha Bailey (Cambridge, in Gotha FZG)

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

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

Dorothee Wilms Scholarship Halle - Gotha - Wolfenbüttel

Dr Martina Kastnerová

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

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