PhD Student, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
Academic Career
- Since 2020 PhD Student, University of Heidelberg
- 2020 M.A. Sinology/Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen
- 2019 B.Ed. Sinology/History, University of Tübingen
- 2018-2019 semesters abroad at Peking University
- 2017 semester abroad at Peking University (ECCS)
Research Focus
In his research Jonas Schmid examines the Huogong qieyao 火攻挈要 (Essentials of Gunpowder Warfare), a treatise written around 1643 by the Jesuit Johann Adam Schall von Bell and his Chinese collaborator Jiao Xu. His focus lies on the process by which European knowledge of gunpowder weaponry was introduced to late Ming China and blended with local knowledge and technologies. He is an associated researcher of the project “Translating Western Science, Technology and Medicine to Late Ming China: Convergences and Divergences in the Light of the Kunyu gezhi 坤輿格致 (Investigations of the Earth’s Interior; 1640) and the Taixi shuifa 泰西水法 (Hydromethods of the Great West; 1612),” supervised by Prof. Hans Ulrich Vogel.
