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Dr. Balázs J. Nemes

University of Freiburg
Medieval German Literature

Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020

E-Mail: balazs.jozsef.nemes@germanistik.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 31.08.2020

Curriculum Vitae

I was born in 1977. I studied German Literature and Catholic Theology at the universities of Cluj (Romania) und Berlin (Freie Universität), Old Hungarian Literature under the ERASMUS Programme at the university of Budapest (2001/02). Graduation in 2003 (Magister Artium). My PhD thesis was submitted in 2009. Since 2004, I have been working at Prof. Schiewer’s and Prof. Hasebrink’s chair of Medieval Literature at Freiburg University, 2016 I was appointed Senior Lecturer (akademischer Rat). I went to Oxford twice, once as Academic Visitor sponsored by the Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg (2007) and once as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the Humboldt Foundation (2009/10). Since 2018, I lead the DFG-project “Making Mysticism. Mystical Books in the Library of the Erfurt Charterhouse” with Dr. Antje Kellersohn (University Library Freiburg), I am an academic member of the Centre for the Middle Ages (Freiburg University) and a member of the Centre for the History of the Book and Texts (CODEX) at the university of Cluj (Romania). Together with Martina Backes, I am responsible for the conception of the mediaeval exhibition project ” buochmeisterinne – Handschriften und Frühdrucke aus dem Freiburger Dominikanerinnenkloster Adelhausen “. The exhibition will be shown between November 2020 and February 2021 as part of the celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the city of Freiburg. More information can be found here

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project