Winner of the Christian-Gottlob-Heyne award 2020

The Arabist Enrico Boccaccini is this years winner of the Christian-Gottlob-Heyne award. Enrico Boccaccini received his PhD with a work on the topic “Transcultural Comparisons of Mirrors for Princes (8th-13th century) from both Sides of the East-West-Divide”. The ceremony will take place online on November 5.

Other candidates for the award were Inga Schürmann (German philology) and Lubomir Suva (Slavic Philology). You can learn more about the awardee, the candidates and their dissertations here.