Martin Mulsow

Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow, Director of the Gotha Research Centre and holder of the professorship for Knowledge Cultures of the European Modern Age at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Erfurt), is a leading intellectual historian specializing in

• Radical Enlightenment
• Renaissance Philosophy
• History of Numismatics
• Material Culture
• Socinianism
• Methodology of the History of Ideas

His research focuses on global knowledge networks, esoteric traditions, and underground intellectual movements, particularly the Illuminati and clandestine manuscript circulation. He has held visiting positions at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Recent publications examine

• knowledge production through material culture
• the role of numismatics in early modern scholarship
• non-European influences on Enlightenment thought
• skeptical traditions in the 17th-18th centuries

Scientific recognition includes

• International Prize for History of Philosophy (1999)
• Karl Jaspers Prize (2004)
• Selma V. Forkosch Prizes (2005, 2007)
• Thuringian Research Prize (2014)
• Opus Magnum Scholarship (2019)
• memberships in Saxon (2012) and Berlin-Brandenburg (2016) Academies

He leads the Illuminati Research Unit and Alchemy Network, while serving on editorial boards for key journals in

• History of Ideas
• Natural Law
• Skepticism Studies
• Antitrinitarianism