Natalie Patricia Körner

Natalie Patricia Körner serves as a PhD Guest Researcher in the Section of Church History at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, and holds an external faculty appointment as Assistant Professor at the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation since August 2019. Her dual affiliation bridges theological history with architectural conservation studies.

Dr. Körner earned her PhD, though specific institutional details of her doctoral training are not provided in current documentation.

Her research pioneers the History of Privacy within Early Modern History, examining how architectural elements like garden walls and windows mediated social boundaries in 16th-18th century Europe. She integrates Architectural History with Legal History and Religious Studies to reconstruct how privacy was negotiated in spaces ranging from Saxon courts to university towns like Helmstedt.

This interdisciplinary framework reveals privacy as a dynamic construct shaped by power structures and cultural practices, moving beyond mere physical seclusion to encompass knowledge concealment and sensory experience in pre-modern societies.

Analysis of her 2020-2025 publications shows concentrated exploration of privacy mechanisms in early modern Saxony, with increasing methodological sophistication from initial case studies (e.g., smashed windows in Helmstedt) toward synthesized frameworks examining architecture, health, and law.

Her collaborative trajectory with scholars like Klein Kafer and Bruun demonstrates growing leadership in the field, culminating in co-edited volumes and conference organization that establish privacy studies as a vital interdisciplinary nexus for understanding early modern European society.

Dr. Körner actively cultivates research networks through conference organization including the 2024 'Building Early Modern Privacy' workshop and 2022 'Alchemy and Mining in Early Modern Saxony' symposium, while her 2025 invited presentation on Saxon alchemical laboratories indicates ongoing expansion into history of science.