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Niklas Amerongen

Researcher
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ORCID Humans and Environment

  • About

    Niklas Amerongen studied history, philosophy and sociology in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Paris. From 2024 to 2026, he worked as a research assistant at the POLY Research Group »Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities«, housed at Goethe-University Frankfurt.

    Since May 2026, Niklas Amerongen has been 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).

  • Work focus

    • Histroy of the plague
    • Early modern Italy

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