PD Dr. Florian Kühnel
Vita
2025 – 2026
Interim Professor
University of Tübingen (Chair of Modern History)
2025
Otto-Hintze-award
for the book „Diplomatie als kollektive Praxis“ (Wallstein), Michael-and-Claudia-Borgolte-foundation
2024
Habilitation
HU Berlin, title: „Diplomatie als kollektive Praxis. Botschaftssekretäre und diplomatischer Alltag im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul“ [= Diplomacy as a Collective Practice. Embassy Secretaries and Diplomatic Everyday Life in Early Modern Istanbul]
Seit 2022
Research Associate
2016 – 2022
Research Associate
DFG project „Experts of Diplomacy. The English Embassy Secretaries in Early Modern Istanbul“, University of Göttingen
2018
Fellow
German Historical Institute Paris
2015 –2016
Assistant Professor
Chair of Early Modern European History, HU Berlin
2015
Fellow
Gerda Henkel Foundation (five-month archive research in London)
2011 –2015
Research Associate
DFG project „The Diplomatic Persona in Political Ritual: Western European Diplomatic Mission Reports and Travelogues from the Ottoman Empire“, HU Berlin
2013
Fellow
German Historical Institute London
2012
PhD
University of Münster, title: „Kranke Ehre? Selbsttötung im frühneuzeitlichen Adel“ [= Sick Honour? Suicide in Early Modern Nobility]
2011 –2012
Fellow
Research Library Erfurt/Gotha
2008 – 2011
Research Assistant
Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures“, University of Münster
2001 –2007
Studies (Master of Arts / Magister Artium)
Historical Anthropology, Ancient History and Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Freiburg i.Br.