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Prof. Dr. Daniel G. König

Professorship for Early and High Medieval History

Contact

Mailing address:
Historisches Seminar der LMU
Mittelalterliche Geschichte
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Germany

For visitors:
Historicum
Schellingstr. 12
80799 München
Room: K 227
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 2180-5438

Office hours
Please make an appointment via e-mail

Curriculum Vitae

1995–1996: Universidad de Salamanca (history, philosophy, Spanish literature); 1996-2002: University of Bonn (medieval and modern history, political science, Islamic studies, German as a foreign language); 2002: Magister Artium; 2002–2003: DAAD language assistant for German as a foreign language at the University of Aleppo; 2003–2005: Doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation; 2005–2007: Research assistant in the DFG Priority Programme 1173 “Integration and Disintegration of Cultures in the European Middle Ages” (associated until 2011); 2006: PhD in Bonn;
2007–2011: Representative of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the German Historical Institute in Paris; 2008–2010: Coordinator of the research group ‘FranceMed’ (La France et la Méditerranée. Espaces de transferts culturels) at the German Historical Institute; 2011–2014: Researcher/lecturer with Bernhard Jussen at Goethe University Frankfurt; 2012–2016: Coordinator of the DFG network “Transcultural Entanglements in the Medieval Euromediterranean (500–1500)”; 2013: Habilitation at Goethe University;
2014–2018: Professor for transcultural studies with a historical-philological focus at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, University of Heidelberg; 2016: Prize of the Humboldt University for outstanding achievements in the field of medieval history, donated by Michael and Claudia Borgolte; 2017: DFG Heisenberg Fellowship; 2018–2025: Professor of History of Religions at the University of Konstanz; since 2025: Professor for early and high medieval history at the LMU Munich.

Research foci

Transmediterranean entanglements; interreligious relations, esp. Christian–Muslim; Orientalism and Occidentalism; multilingualism, linguistic entanglement and translation movements, esp. Latin and Arabic; pre-modern global history, processes of religious expansion

Transmediterranean History. Commented Anthology of Primary Sources: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed.

Publikationen / Publications