Intellectual historian and expert on early modern natural law and Danish-West African history
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Docent, Department of History, University of Lund
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
“Natural Law, Slavery, and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Denmark”
Scandinavian Journal of History. Published Online. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2026.2639399
“‘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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/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, 2026). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938853.003
“The Law of Nations”, in Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf, eds. Knud Haakonssen and Ian Hunter (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 236-262. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2019.1643601