Adam Sutcliffe || HAB

While at the HAB I am primarily working on my project on ‘Pierre Bayle and the Uncertainty of Historical Knowledge in Early Enlightenment Europe’. Bayle has long fascinated me; his love of paradoxes and his insistence on uncertainty still generates intense arguments between historians and philosophers over how to interpret him. I am looking closely […]

Lorenzo DiTommaso || HAB

Lorenzo DiTommaso is Professor of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University Montréal. His academic speciality is apocalyptic speculation in the aggregate, from the early Jewish apocalypses to mediaeval apocalyptic prophecies to contemporary popular culture. Among his recent publications are Music in the Apocalyptic Mode (2023, ed. with C. McAllister), Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead […]

Ryan Hampton || HAB

I work on the history of 16th century unrest from a spatial perspective. My project compares networks of grassroots political unrest in the Holy Roman Empire and the Spanish colonial new world. Above all, I want to know where and how political discontent/conspiracy spread in (largely) face-to-face contexts. My current focus is the German Peasants’ […]

NS-Raubgut: Restitution an die Erb*innen von Benny Mielziner || HAB

Wolfenbüttel, 01.04.2025 Benny (Benjamin Jaakov) Mielziner (1853‒1926) wurde im dänischen Aalborg geboren und siedelte 1876 nach Braunschweig um, wo er 1885 eingebürgert wurde. Zwischen 1886 und 1921 war er Repräsentant, danach bis 1925 Vorsteher der dortigen Jüdischen Gemeinde. Mielziner war mit Marie Therese Widmann (1853‒1940) verheiratet; aus der Ehe gingen fünf Kinder hervor, die das […]