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Jakob Breu, M.A.

Scholarship holder

jakob.breu.NFG@ leibniz-gwzo.de

ORCID JRG Global Armenia/ns

About

Jakob Breu studied history, classics and political science at the University of Vienna, graduating in 2024 with an MA degree in Interdisciplinary Eastern European Studies with a thesis on »Armenians in the ›War of the Holy League‹«. During his studies, he spent a semester at the University of Nottingham. In 2024 he worked as a research assistant for Professor İpek K. Yosmaoğlu, Northwestern University, US.
Jakob Breu has been a doctoral candidate at the GWZO and a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, since June 2025.
Work Focus
- Armenians in East and Central Europe in the Early Modern Era (primarily in the 17th century)
- Transregional repercussions of the Armenian Genocide
- Foreign relations since the Early Modern Age and non-state actors
- History of humanitarianism
Awards

2024 MA Thesis Award of the DDr. Stefan Lászlo Society, Eisenstadt, Austria

Armenian Children in Orphanages in Europe

Violence and Humanitarianism

(Global Armenia/ns)

Jakob Breu

After the Armenian genocide in 1915/16, around 40,000 children were left orphaned. Caring for these often traumatised, forcibly Turkified children became a particular challenge for humanitarian actors and also had repercussions in large parts of Europe.