Professor Martin Mulsow

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Professor Martin Mulsow is organising the conference on Hiob Ludold and Johann Michael Wansleben, together with Dr Asaph Ben-Tov and Dr Jan Loop at the Research Centre for Cultural and Social Studies, Gotha. The event will take place on 11 – 13 May 2015. Gotha was the place where, in 1652, an significant cultural encounter happened, when the Catholic Ethiopian Priest and Scholar Abba Gorgoryos came to visit Hiob Ludolf. Professor Mulsow is also supervising the research project on Johann Ernst Gerhard and the Harmony of Oriental Languages.

Professor Mulsow is a leading expert in early modern intellectual and religious history and the history of the Radical Reformation, with a particular interest in Anti-Trinitarianism and the parallel perception of Islam and Socinianism in early modern Europe. He is the director of the Forschungszentrum Gotha and Professor for culturs of knowledge early modern Europe.