Intellectual historian and expert on early modern natural law and Danish-West African history
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Docent (associate professor), Department of History, University of Lund
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
PROJECTS
BOOK
A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law (Brill, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004414136
“This innovative and well-organized examination of Melanchthon’s political thought
makes an important contribution to the study of Renaissance and Reformation political theory.” Michael G. Baylor, in Renaissance Quarterly, 54, no. 4 (2021) pp. 1376-77.
“eine sorgfältig gearbeitete, stringent argumentierende Studie […], die zugleich quellennah vorgeht und Melanchthons Thesen in überzeugender Weise sowohl in zeitgenössische Debatten wie in politische Konflikte einordnet”. Jan-Hendryk de Boer, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, 48 (2021), pp. 149-151.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“‘An undisputable Right … to appropriate … the Propriety, and dominium of this Coast’: Natural Law and Danish Colonialism on the Eighteenth-Century Guinea Coast I”
Global Intellectual History 8, no. 2 (2023), pp. 186–208. 10.1080/23801883.2021.1986924
“They ‘submitted themselves with their lands to his Majesty … for ever and always’: Natural Law and Danish Colonialism on the Eighteenth-Century Guinea Coast II”
Global Intellectual History 8, no. 2 (2023), pp. 209-228. 10.1080/23801883.2021.2012180
“Natural Rights” in The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume III: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, ed. Andrew Fitzmaurice and Rachel Hammersley (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
“The Law of Nations”, in Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf, eds. Knud Haakonssen and Ian Hunter (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 236-262. 10.1017/9781108561006.010
“Libertas philosophandi and natural law in early eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway”, Intellectual History Review 30, no. 2 (2020), pp. 209-231. 10.1080/17496977.2019.1643601