Our Team

Michaela Wiesinger

Michaela Wiesinger joined the University of Innsbruck as a new Professor of German Medieval Studies in October 2024. Her research focuses on the late Middle Ages and the early modern period with a focus on usage texts. Her ERC Starting Grant, which she transferred to Innsbruck from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, deals with arithmetic manuscripts in German from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Franziska Putz

Franziska Putz completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Universities of Vienna and Heidelberg and has been working on the ERC Starting Grant project ARITHMETIC for one and a half years. She originally supported the transcriptions as a student assistant and has now recently taken up the position of pre-doc at the University of Innsbruck. Her research focuses on the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. In her dissertation, she will focus on the narrative elements and structures in manuscript and printed arithmetic books of this period and thus contribute valuable insights into the knowledge and communication of mathematical content in historical contexts.

Norbert Hunor Orbán

Norbert Hunor Orbán is a research associate and also part of Michaela Wiesinger’s ERC team. Within the project, he is responsible for transcribing the manuscript corpus and preparing the digital edition. His research outside the project focuses on the late Middle Ages. He is writing his dissertation on the perception of the Cumans in Central Europe between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Katharina M. Hofer

Katharina Hofer is a research associate in the ERC Starting Grant ARITHMETIC. In this context, she is working on arithmetic manuscripts with regard to their networks. This includes their history, production, origin, distribution and the routes they have taken. Her research focuses on the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Her dissertation topic deals with illuminated documents and manuscripts from the time of Emperor Maximilian I and their interdisciplinary research using non-invasive chemical analysis methods.

Thomas Zangl

Thomas Zangls  research currently focuses on early modern and contemporary history, in particular on the topic of the culture of remembrance, as well as on digital humanities in the areas of automated manuscript recognition and text modeling. In the project, he is responsible for the data modeling for the implementation of the digital edition, including the conversion of the transcriptions into the target format XML.