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Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650

Research Group "Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body"

Research Group Leader Katja Krause

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Chaonan Zhang

sek.krause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Group Leader

Research Group Leader (Nov 2018 - Oct 2026)

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

Service & Administrators

Publications Manager (Mar 2020 - Oct 2026)

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

Anina Woischnig

Digital Content Curator, Departmental Assistant (Oct 2021 - Oct 2026)

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

Researchers

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2024 - Oct 2026)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2024 - Sep 2025)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024 - Dec 2025)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2024 - Dec 2024)

Predoctoral Scholar (Nov 2018 - Dec 2025)

Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium

Sascha Freyberg

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2023 - Dec 2024)

The Unity of Science in the Anthropocene

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2024 - Oct 2026)

Daniel Moshe Knebel

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2023 - Jun 2026)

Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science

Razieh-Sadat Mousavi

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2019 - Dec 2024)

Text and Context in Early Islamic Scholarship: A Ninth-Century Paraphrase of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2024 - Oct 2026)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2024 - Oct 2026)

Stefanie Rudolf

Postdoctoral Scholar (Feb 2022 - Jun 2025)

Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020 - Sep 2025)

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

Janina Wellmann

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Oct 2022 - Sep 2025)

Ecologies of Skins

External Advisors

This Research Group is complemented by an interdisciplinary board of external advisors, including:

Peter Adamson (LMU Munich), Dong Xiu Yuang (Shandong University), Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University), Roberto Hofmeister Pich (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Luís Lopez-Farjeat (UP Mexico), José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto), Yosef Schwartz (Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University), Loris Sturlese (Università del Salento), and Richard Taylor (Marquette University).

Collaborators

We work in close collaboration with the following existing research projects:

Heirs of Avicenna and Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen (both LMU Munich)
Animal Rationale Mortale, Petrus Hispanus medicus, and From Data to Wisdom (Universidade do Porto)
Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group
Making Mysticism (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) (completed)