Moritz Lange StEx

Since June 2026: Research Associate in the project ‘Burchard's Decree Digital’, funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz at the TU Darmstadt

Since May 2026: Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

2025-2026: PhD Fellow at the Minerva Foundation

2025: Scholarship holder at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice (German Center for Venetian Studies)

2024–2025: PhD Fellow at the Minerva Foundation

Since 2023: Doctoral candidate at the University of Kassel (Medieval History – Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner)

2017–2022: Studied history and German language and literature at the University of Kassel to become a secondary school teacher (L3), graduating with a thesis entitled ‘Fra Mauro's Image of Africa’

History of Cartography

Spatial History

Text-Image Relations

History of Knowledge and Cultural History

The dissertation project focuses on the world map completed in 1459 by the Venetian Camaldolese monk Fra Mauro. The aim is to elaborate on the details of the conception of Africa within the framework of the history of ideas, placing particular emphasis on questions concerning the recording and structuring of space and its order. The analysis will be carried out in comparison with narrative and other pictorial sources and will also take into account Islamic cartography of Africa in the 15th century. The dissertation is limited to the extremely dynamic image of Africa in the 15th century, when exploration of Africa and exchange with its inhabitants extended far to the south and there was increased interest in this continent before the focus of cartographers and navigators shifted to America with the expansion of the European world.

Conference reports

324. Hessisch/Mittelrheinisches Kolloquium des Konstanzer Arbeitskreises für mittelalterliche Geschichte, in: HSozKult (2024), https://www.hsozkult.de/index.php/conferencereport/id/fdkn-145726.

9. Italientag: Caritas – Kulturen der Fürsorge / Caritas – Culture dell'assistenza, in: HSozKult (2023), http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-139107.

Minerva-Gentner Symposium „Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae“, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte (2023), https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/30155.

Burchard of Mount Sion's Descriptio Terrae Sanctae. Minerva-Gentner Symposium, in: HSozKult (2023), https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-133602.

May 2026: ‚Fluss, Farbe, Fehlinterpretation? Neue Einsichten zur Nildarstellung bei Fra Mauro‘, 14. Kartengeschichtliches Kolloquium, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

August 2025: ‘Fra Mauros Afrika’ Colloquium, Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig.