Daniel King

Daniel König (* 1976 ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1995 to 1996 he studied Middle and Modern History, Philosophy and Spanish Literature at the Universidad de Salamanca and from 1996 to 2002 Middle and Modern History, Political Science, Islamic Studies and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Bonn (2002 Magister Artium). From 2002 to 2003 he was DAAD language assistant for German as a foreign language at the University of Aleppo . From 2003 to 2005 he received a PhD scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation . From 2005 to 2007 he was a research assistant in the DFG priority program 1173 "Integration and Disintegration of Cultures in the European Middle Ages" (until 2011 an associated but active member). After completing his doctorate in Bonn in 2006 , he was a subject librarian for late antiquity and the early Middle Ages at the German Historical Institute in Paris from 2007 to 2011 . From 2008 to 2010 he was coordinator of the research group “FranceMed” (La France et la Méditerranée. Espaces de transferts culturels) at the German Historical Institute in Paris . From 2011 to 2014 he was a research assistant at the Goethe University , Department Middle Ages I, Bernhard Jussen . From 2012 to 2016 he was the coordinator of the DFG network "Transcultural entanglements in the medieval Euromediterraneum" (500–1500). After completing his habilitation in 2013 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, he taught from 2014 to 2018 as a temporary university professor for transcultural studies with a historical-philological focus at the Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg . In 2016 he received the Humboldt University Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of medieval history, donated by Michael and Claudia Borgolte. In 2017 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation. Since 2018 he has been teaching as professor for the history of religions at the University of Konstanz

His main research interests are late antique and early medieval Christianization of Europe, relations between Latin-Christian Europe and the Arab-Islamic sphere, Latin and Arabic - social histories of linguistic interdependence, "images of the other?" And mutual documentation of Latin-Christian and Arabic-Islamic spheres and orientalism and Occidentalism.

Fonts (selection)

• Conversion motives. Investigations into the Christianization process in the Roman Western Empire and its Romanic-Germanic successors (4th – 8th centuries) . Husum 2008, ISBN 3-7868-1493-7 .
• as editor with Rania Abdellatif, Yassir Benhima and Elisabeth Ruchaud: Construire la Méditerranée, penser les transferts culturels. Approches historiographiques et perspectives de recherche . Munich 2012, ISBN 3-486-70476-1 .
• Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West. Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe . Oxford 2015, ISBN 0-19-873719-X .
• with Georg Christ, Saskia Dönitz, Şevket Küçükhüseyin, Margit Mersch, Britta Müller-Schauenburg, Ulrike Ritzerfeld, Christian Vogel, Julia Zimmermann: Transcultural entanglements. Medieval Perspectives . Göttingen 2016, ISBN 3-86395-277-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel König in the catalog of the German National Library
• Prof. Dr. Daniel King