OTRA: An Ontology for the Transmission and Re-Use of Argumentative Patterns in Christian-Muslim Religious Encounters

Location	University of Copenhagen with Prof. Dr. Jan Loop
Position	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Contents	I represented textual and topical connections within Christian-Muslim Religious Encounters through Linked Open Data.

Outputs

Articles: (1) From Florence, through Baghdad, into the World, (2) Unleash the Apparatus, (3) Confutation, Conversion, Martyrdom, (4) Simplify and Doctrinalise

Presentations: DHNB Conference 2023 (online) and Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen ? (Nantes)

Data: (1) OTRA Connective Ontology, (2) OTRAone Dataset

Utopian Narrations

Location	Research Training Group 1767 "Factual and fictional narration" (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Position	Postdoctoral researcher
Contents	I used narratological concepts to describe how narrative structures contribute to the success of early modern Utopian narrations and served as a mentor for the PhD-students of the program.

Outputs: (1) It might be not impossible, (2) Matched Weapons, (3) Neugier auf Pilgerreise, (4) Waging War for Justice.

European Reception of Islam in the Middle Ages

Location	Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Universität Koblenz with Prof. Dr. Ulli Roth
Position	Postdoctoral researcher
Contents	By editing, collecting, and analysing a great number of sources, many of them from manuscripts, I was able to demonstrate the broad engagement of the Western Church with Islam at the Council of Basel (1431–1449).

Outputs: (1) Der Islam auf dem Konzil von Basel, (2) Reasoning with Riccoldo, (3) Qur’an at the Council, (4) Bücher für die Mission

Political Philosophy in the Middle Ages and argumenation from examples

In my PhD thesis, I provided an historical and analytical description of the previously neglected role that exemplary and historical argumentation play in scholastic political treatises. My advisor was Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (FU Berlin). Outputs: (1) Erzählte Argumente, (2) How history happens, (3) Minorem probat per Simile

Translation: Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia Universalis

Together with Frank Böhling, I revised a Latin-German translation of the Musurgia Univeralis by Athanasius Kircher (Rome 1650). The Musurgia Univeralis consists of 10 books and about 1200 total pages that are supposed to contain “everything there is to know about music”. The translation was originally done by the philologist Günter Scheibel. The project was initiated and led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Hust (HMT Leipzig) in cooperation with the DHI Rome (Dr. Markus Engelhardt). Outputs: Musurgia Universalis

Conceptual History of Performance Concepts

I analysed which concepts were used to describe musical performances throughout the 18th century. The work focused in on three case studies that offered a specific milieu in terms of persons, society, structures, and publication organs. The three locations and time frames are also in the title of the book that came out of this project: Hamburg 1725, Berlin 1765, Wien 1800. The project was led by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Danuser (HU Berlin). I cooperated closely with my two colleagues Laure Spaltenstein and Felix Emter, who covered the 19th and the 20th century, respectively. Outputs: Hamburg, Berlin, Wien