Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Arno Strohmeyer

Arno Strohmeyer is head of the project and deputy director of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB). He is Professor of Modern History at the Department of History at the University of Salzburg. His research interests include the study of systems of government and political participation, peacekeeping, interculturality, religion and politics, as well as diplomatic history and historical source editions in the early modern period.

Mail: arno.strohmeyer@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-51581-7311
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

Dr. Zsuzsanna Cziráki

Zsuzsanna Cziráki is a research associate at the IHB and at the same time assistant professor at the Institute of History at the University of Szeged (Hungary). Her scientific interest encompasses the early modern diplomatic relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire, with a particular focus on the Viennese decision-making mechanisms in the field of oriental diplomacy. Her research also includes the Principality of Transylvania and the Christian vassals of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. As part of the project, she is responsible for the edition of Habsburg sources.

Mail: Zsuzsanna.Cziraki@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-51581-7328
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

Dimitra Grigoriou, MSc, MA

Dimitra Grigoriou is a Linguist and Digital Humanist. She works as a research technician at the IHB. She is responsible for the transcription as well as the data modelling of the digital objects within the QhoD data using technologies such as TEI/XML and XSLT. Her areas of focus include: data modeling and management, relational modeling, machine learning and digital edition.

Mail: dimitra.grigoriou@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581-7317
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

Mag. Dr. Stephan Kurz

Stephan Kurz, postdoc researcher at the IHB, is responsible for data modelling and presentation of the digital objects within QhoD’s Grazer Asset Management Systems GAMS framework both in terms of technology (TEI, XSLT) and visual representation (HTML/CSS). His research interests include textual scholarship, history of typography, but also extend into digital aspects of prosopography and bibliography.

Mail: ​ste​p​h​an.​ku​r​z@oea​w.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-51581-7321
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

Mag. Dr. Manuela Mayer, MA

Manuela Mayer is research associate and well experienced in the field of editing early modern sources with special focus on the 18th century. Within the project she is responsible for the edition of sources on Habsburg legations to the Ottoman Empire.

Mail: manuela.mayer@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581-7337
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

Dr. Yasir Yılmaz

Yasir Yılmaz is a research associate with expertise in the history of early modern and modern history of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy (1500-1918). Within the project he is responsible for the edition of Ottoman and Habsburg sources concerning Ottoman legations to Vienna. In addition to the research project, Yilmaz is currently working on his habilitation thesis “The Road to 1683: A New History of the Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna.” Besides, he has been regularly teaching since 2017 courses concerning the histories of Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian empires, history of the Middle East and the relations between the Islamic world and the West.

Mail: yasir.yilmaz@oeaw.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 51581-7337
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich

ao. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Claudia Römer

Claudia Römer is a retired Associate Professor of Turkish Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna. Her main fields of research are Ottoman Diplomatics, Ottoman Social and Economic History, Ottoman historical grammar, syntax, and stylistics. Within the project, she engages in proofreading the transcriptions and translations of the Ottoman texts.

Mail: claudia.roemer@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-43401
Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Wien

Dr. Ercan Akyol, BA M.A.

Ercan Akyol (PhD) is a senior lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. His main research interests lie in the area of early modern Ottoman cultural history. In his Ph.D. thesis, he focuses on Ottoman literary culture in the early 17th century. In the scope of his research area, he is particularly interested in the literary historiography, Ottoman paleography, manuscript culture, and letter-writing practices (content, form, and folding techniques). He has published various articles and encyclopedic entries on Ottoman history, literature, and culture.

Mail: ercan.akyol@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-43401
Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Wien

Laila Dandachi, MA

Laila Dandachi is a doctoral candidate at the institute of History of the University of Vienna and currently examines the material and visual sources within the framework of the project QhoD. She completed her master’s degree (Byzantine, Islamic and European art history) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2015, she focuses on the symbolic meaning of Islamic artefacts displayed on occasion of diplomatic encounters between the Islamic and European world and furthermore especially also on the cultural and diplomatic exchange between the Ottoman and Habsburg empire in the Early modern age.

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Jakob Sonnberger, BA

Jakob Sonnberger is working at the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz. Within the project he is responsible for the implementation of QhoD into the technical infrastructure (GAMS) developed at the center.

Mail: jakob.sonnberger@uni-graz.at
Phone: +43 (0) 316 380 5790
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Elisabethstraße 59/3
A-8010 Graz/Österreich

Lisa Brunner, MA (bis Oktober 2021)

Lisa Brunner is a research associate and, in the course of the project, responsible for the edition of sources on Habsburg legations to the Ottoman Empire; she also managed the QhoD social media channel on Twitter. Within the research project she is working on a dissertation on the intermediality of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy. Her research interests lie in the field of early modern art and cultural history, diplomatic history, as well as cultural and social media management and scientific communication.