Florian Kühnel

Florian Kühnel studied Historical Anthropology, Ancient History and Pre-historical Archaeology in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. For his PhD thesis on suicides of noblemen in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries he received his doctorate from the University of Muenster in 2012. After a few years as an assistant professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin he is now a member of the Seminar of Medieval and Modern History at Georg-August-University Goettingen. There, his research mainly focuses on the Early Modern diplomatic contacts between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, particularly regarding the role of the English embassy secretaries.