Christian König

Dr. Christian König is a researcher at the University of Regensburg, affiliated with the Institute of History under the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, History and Social Sciences. He specializes in Early Modern History with a focus on political ideology, religious discourse, and cultural construction of reality.

• Research Themes:
  • Historical Cartography
  • Witchcraft Persecution
  • Enlightenment Thought
  • Nationalism Without Nations
  • Confessionalization Processes

Publications include a monograph on political concepts in early modern courtly behavior (2012) and studies on topics like religious Enlightenment in The Eighteenth Century (2015) and imaginary geographies in Prinzenrollen (2016). His work explores how collective discourses shape identities like nationalism and witchcraft.

Teaching encompasses courses on the Holy Roman Empire, Reformation, Enlightenment, French Revolution, and social constructs in early modernity. He has collaborated on digital humanities projects, including a social media-based reconstruction of the Immerwährender Reichstag (2013).