Team
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Professors
Active professors
Photo: Michael Kohls
Heisenberg-Professor for Jewish Studies
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-4740
Office hours
- by arrangement
Photo: Michael Kohls
Chair for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9792
Research associates
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate (PESHAT)
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-6961
Photo: Michael Kohls
HEPMASITE Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Photo: Michael Kohls
Lecturer for Hebrew
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9841
Photo: Uta Lohmann
Temporary Professorship in Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9910
Office hours
- nach Vereinbarung
Key aspects of activity
- The History of Jewish Education
- The Jewish Enlightenment in Prussia
- Reformpolitik and early Reform Judaism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
- Jewish-Christian relations around 1800
- The Study of Biographies
- Theories, Practices and Processes of Transfer of Bible translations in the Prussian Haskalah
- Visual Art and the Aesthetics of the Haskalah
Photo: amir mazor
Research Associate (PESHAT)
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9904
Email: amir.mazor"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Key aspects of activity
- Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) in medieval Muslim literature
- Representation of Jews in Arabic historiography
- Jews in medieval Egypt and Syria
- Jewish-Muslim relations in the Islamicate world
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9835
Photo: Michael Kohls
HEPMASITE Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C211
Key aspects of activity
- History of Hylomorphism
- Ancient and Medieval Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
- Aristotelian Psychology
Photo: Chiara Rover
MCAS Co-Director, MCAS Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C218
Tel: +49 40 42838-9911
Key aspects of activity
- History of Ancient Philosophy
- Ancient Scepticism
- Roman Epicureanism
- Ancient Roman Religion
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate (Musar)
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Photo: Michael Kohls
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9834
Privatdozenten and contract university teachers
Photo: F. Zanella
Research Associate (Title Teaching)
Institute for Jewish Studies
Key aspects of activity
- Rabbinic Judaism
- Qumran writings
- Hebrew lexicography
Visiting scholars
Photo: j.rodriguez-arribas
Research Associate
Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Intellectual history of Jews
- Premodern astronomical sciences
- Medieval cosmology
- Astronomical instruments
- Medieval manuscripts
- Medieval science as a melting pot of cultures, religions, and languages
- Material and visual cultures of medieval and early-modern astronomy
- Prognostication and prognostic practices in premodern Europe
- Relationships of biblical exegesis and science in the Middle Ages
Technical, administrative and library staff
Photo: Michael Kohls
Project Assistant
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-9579
Photo: Michael Kohls
MCAS Academic Coordinator
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11 (2nd floor)
20355 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 42838-8605
Student assistants
Photo: Michael Kohls
Key aspects of activity
- Carolina Lehan is a sculptor and painter whose artistic practice delves into the realms of space, everyday life, and the environment. With a deep appreciation for the wisdom and memory of natural materials, she skillfully develops site-specific sculptures and installations by exploring a range of contemporary and ancient craft techniques.
Photo: Michael Kohls
Student Assistant
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Room: C211