Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch

since 2024 Heisenberg-Professor in Jewish Studies at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Hamburg 

2022 Habilitation in Jewish Studies at the University of Hamburg

2017–2023 Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader, “Jewish Moralistic Writings (musar) of the Early Modern Period: 1600-1800,” University of Hamburg, Germany

2014–17 Research Associate, Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg, Germany

2013–14 Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish History, New York City, United States of America

2012–13 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, ERC Advanced Grant Project FOUNDMED – Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

2011–12 Visiting lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

• Jewish Moralistic Writings (musar)
• Kabbalah
• Jewish Ethics
• History of Hebrew Printing and Bibliography
• Early Modern Jewish Intellectual History
• Mysticism and Spirituality in the Abrahamic Traditions

See the complete list of publications at this link.

• World Union of Jewish Studies
• Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)
• European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)
• German Association for Jewish Studies (Fachverband Judaistik / Jüdische Studien / Jüdische Theologie in Deutschland e.V)
• Selma Stern Zentrum for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg

2023: Senior Fellowship at the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies—Jewish Scepticism.

2021-2022: Fellowship of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Forschungskolleg für Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg.                                         

2020: (together with Leore Sachs-Shmueli, Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel). Funding of a German-Israeli Minerva School on the topic "Fear of Sin," Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society, Munich.

2019: (together with Agata Paluch, FU Berlin) EAJS Conference Grant for the conference "Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer in the Early Modern World".

2015: Ephraim E. Urbach Prize 2015-2016, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, in cooperation with the World Union of Jewish Studies.

2013-2014: Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars. New York City, USA.

2011-2012: DAAD scholarship as part of the program "Reclaiming German Scholars from Abroad".

2010-2011: Fellowship of the Max and Bele Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Research on Musar and Jewish Ethics, Jerusalem, Israel.

2007-2010: Doctoral scholarship from the Minerva Foundation, Max Planck Society, Munich.

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group (DFG) “Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period” (2017–2024) (link)

Heisenberg Project (DFG) “Holy Man, Miracle Worker, Divine Agent: The Saintly Biographies of Isaac Luria Ashkenazi” (2023–2028)