Lennard Pelikan, M.A.
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About
Lennard Pelikan studied History and Political Science with a focus on Medieval History at the University of Konstanz with an Erasmus exchange at University College Cork (Ireland). From 2018 to 2024, he worked as research assistant at the chairs of Contemporary History, Medieval History and History of Religions of the University of Konstanz. From March to December 2025, he was a researcher at the GWZO in the project »Modeling Pre-Modern Ambiguities: Case Studies from Eastern Europe (VAMOD)«.
Since April 2026, Lennard Pelikan is a doctoral candidate at the GWZO working as a researcher on the project »A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800): Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences (EUROpest)«, funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
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Work focus
- History of the plague
- Bohemia and Moravia in the Late Middle Ages
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Award
- 2018–2024: scholarship holder of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
Aktuelles Forschungsthema
The Plague in Bohemia and Moravia after 1380
This project examines late medieval plague outbreaks in Bohemia and Moravia that have received less attention so far. In particular, it focuses on forms of coping with contingencies caused or intensified by the epidemic.
read moreModeling Pre-Modern Ambiguities: Case Studies from Eastern Europe (VAMOD)
Based on charters from the 14th and 15th centuries, this project aims to depict premodern historical realities in the border area between modern Poland and Ukraine (»Crown Ruthenia«) for the database FactGrid. Our goal is also to develop guidelines for future, similar projects.
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