Since August 2025, Dr. Maximilian Schuh from Freie Universität Berlin has been a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Over the next three years, he will spend a total of 18 months as part of the Triptic-EU research group (Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought), where he will focus on the work of the English scholar William Merle. The main aim of his project is to prepare a critical edition of the hitherto almost unknown writings of this Oxford professor on weather forecasting and to draw attention to a so far overlooked chapter in the history of 14th-century science.
About the Researcher
Dr. Maximilian Schuh studied History and German Literature at the Universities of Munich and Edinburgh. He received his PhD in Medieval History from the University of Münster in 2013 with a dissertation on the University of Ingolstadt in the 15th century, conducted within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in Premodern and Modern Societies.” Since 2011, he has held academic appointments at the Universities of Munich, Göttingen, Heidelberg, and Duisburg-Essen. In 2019, he joined Freie Universität Berlin as Lecturer in the Department of the History of the High and Later Middle Ages. From October 2023 to September 2024, he was a Consolidator Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg – Institute for Advanced Study in Munich. His research focuses primarily on the history of universities in the 15th-century Holy Roman Empire and on perceptions of the natural environment in 14th-century England. He also has a strong interest in promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between the humanities and the natural sciences.
About the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship
The eighteen-month fellowship, named after the biochemist and Nobel laureate Feodor Lynen, is awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation—funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research—to experienced German researchers with outstanding achievements, enabling them to carry out research abroad in collaboration with international scholars of their choice. In the case of Dr. Schuh, the academic host is Dr. Ota Pavlíček.
Photos by Jana Říhová
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