Visiting Scholars
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2022 (June–July)
Prof. Ulrich Lehner (Notre Dame, IN, USA)
Research areas: catholicisms of the early modern period; history of theology; metaphors of historical research; Catholic Enlightenment
Seminar: “Jansenism, Polemics, Irenics, and Dogma: The Problems of Catholic Theology in the Early Modern Period”
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2022 (April–July)
Dr. Sasja Stopa (Aarhus/Denmark)
Research areas: Martin Luther’s theology, Lutheran confessional culture in Scandinavia during the 18th century (catechisms), theories on the interplay between theology and societal development
Seminar: "Trusting in God and in his earthly masks. The interplay between theology and societal development in the Early Modern Period"
Visiting Scientists, Summer Semester 2021
Prof. Dr. Valeska von Rosen (Düsseldorf)
Art History
Workshop: “How do Visual Media React to Confessional Debates (the Example of Rome around 1600)?”
Dr. habil. Piotr Kociumbas (Warschau, Poland)
German Studies
Workshop: "Hymnological Sources in Royal Prussia"
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2021 (April–July)
Prof. Dr. Will Sweetman (Dunedin/New Zealand)
Research areas: European expansion in the early modern period, Catholic and Protestant mission in early modern Asia
Seminar: "Making Christians in the Early Modern World"
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2020 (April–July)
Prof. Dr. Beth Plummer (Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Research areas: The impact of the early reform movement on family and gender roles; the changing legal definitions of social norms and religious identity; tolerance, intolerance, and coexistence in practice; confessional accommodation, hybridity and tensions in shared churches and convents in the early modern Germany
Lecture: “The life and death of Abbess Margarethe von Watzdorf: What a convent inventory reveals about convent reform and devotional life during the sixteenth-century German Reformation.”
Seminar: “Contested and shared sacred spaces in early modern Europe and the world”
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2018 (April–July)
Dr. Seraina Plotke (Basel, Switzerland)
Research areas: history of early modern book printing, text and image in the early modern period, study of emblems
Lecture: "‘Bestseller‘ der frühen Druckgeschichte (15./16. Jahrhundert) und Austauschprozesse der Konfessionen” (Early Print “Bestsellers” of the 15th and 16th Centuries and Processes of Exchange between the Confessions)
Seminar: “Emblematik in der Frühen Neuzeit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung interkonfessioneller Aspekte” (Early Modern Emblems and Interconfessionality)
Visiting Scientists, Summer Semester 2017
Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt (Weimar)
Historical Musicology
Workshop: "Marienmusik und ihre konfessionellen Lesearten" (Marian music and its confessional interpretations)
Dr. Victoria Brownlee (Dublin, Ireland)
British Studies / Literary and Cultural Studies
Workshop: "Mary and the religious-political landscape after reformation"
Visiting Professor, Summer Semester 2017 (April–July)
Dr. Stefano Saracino (Vienna, Austria)
Research areas: political and confessional aspects of the English utopias of 17th-century foundations and charitable endowments of the Greek community of Vienna (1750–1918)
Habilitation topic: Study of the mobile presence of Greek-Orthodox persons from the Ottoman Empire in the Holy Roman Empire with particular reference to migration, science/knowledge, and confession (1648–1806)
Lecture: “Das Alte Reich und die Griechen im Osmanischen Reich: Eine vergessene Beziehungsgeschichte” (The Holy Roman Empire and the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire: The History of a Forgotten Relationship)
Seminar: “Am Beginn moderner Toleranz? Das Zusammenleben der Konfessionen in der Vormoderne” (The Beginnings of Modern Religious Tolerance? Confessional Coexistence in the Early Modern Period)
Visiting Scientists, Summer Semester 2016
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer (Bern, Switzerland)
German Studies
Workshop on methodology/methods
Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Austin/Texas, USA)
Art History
Workshop on methodology/methods
Visiting professor, Summer Semester 2016 (April–July)
Dr. Asaph Ben-Tov (Gotha Research Centre, Erfurt)
Research areas: Oriental studies and the reception of Antiquity in the early modern period. Ongoing projects: monograph on Jena Orientalist Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621–1668) and a comprehensive examination of academic Oriental studies in the German-speaking region from around 1600 to 1740 (Habilitation)
Lecture: "Europäische Begegnungen mit nicht-christlichen Religionen in der Frühen Neuzeit" (European Encounters with Non-Christian Religions in the Early Modern Period)
Seminar: "Die Gelehrtenrepublik im konfessionellen Zeitalter" (The Republic of Letters in the Confessional Age)