Benjamin Hübbe, M.A.

About

Benjamin Hübbe is a doctroral candidate based in Berlin (Prof. Dr. Bernd Roling) and Jyväskylä (Prof. Dr. Outi Merisalo). He focuses on the entanglement of natural sciences (such as botany and zoology) and the exegesis of Scripture in eighteenth-century Europe. In his thesis he will focus on writings of eighteenth-century European scholars and travelers and their mutual interests in the unfamiliar animals and plants that occur in Scripture.

He is a member of the Colloquium of the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Mittelalter – Renaissance – Frühe Neuzeit at the Freie Universität Berlin. Together with other colleagues he is currently preparing a collection of papers entitled Wissen und Geltung. Untersuchungen zur kulturellen Dynamik von Wissen in Mittelalter und Neuzeit which will be published in the series of ‘Berliner Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung’.

He is a member of staff in the classics department of the Freie Universität Berlin and works also on Christian literature of the Late Antiquity.