Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship on Visual History and Spatial Narratives at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (2026).
Institution: Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg
Application deadline: September 30, 2025

In 2026, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) will again award the Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship for research on/with maps and image materials. IOS encourages applications from historians, geographers, cartographers, art historians and scholars of cognate disciplines, who focus on Eastern or Southeastern Europe. The duration of the research stay is up to four weeks. As part of a mutual agreement with the institute, the fellow is expected to contribute to the development of GeoPortOst, the IOS gateway for historical and thematic maps, and/or ImagOst, the emerging IOS gateway for images printed in books.

Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553) was a German cartographer, who produced maps of Southeastern Europe (Carniola, Croatia, Bosnia and Hungary) and Eastern Europe (for Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii by Sigismund von Herberstein), including one of the oldest maps in the IOS library collection (from 1575). In this way, he contributed to the visual representation of Eastern Europe in the early modern period. The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (www.leibniz-ios.de ) in Regensburg is an independent research facility with close links to the University of Regensburg. It conducts interdisciplinary research organized in three research departments (History, Economics, Politics). Furthermore, the IOS maintains a special library holding a stock of more than 360,000 media units of literature in humanities and social sciences relating to the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

We now invite applications for our 2026 Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship. The fellowship allowance is determined by the length of stay and the applicant’s professional experience. Please submit your application online until September 30, 2025, via the IOS application portal at portal https://leibniz-ios.de/en/institute/about-the-institute/fellowships.

The application documents should include the following:
- a short research proposal in German or English (maximum three pages)
- a detailed academic Curriculum Vitae (naming two references)
- electronic copies of no more than three academic articles (published or unpublished), in PDF format
- preferences concerning length and desired period of your stay (between February and November).

Please also pay attention to the Program for Visiting Scholars at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (2025). You will be notified of the outcome of your application by early November 2025. Please note: All applications will be deleted after six months.

For further information on the Augustin Hirschvogel Fellowship please contact the head of the IOS library, Tillmann Tegeler (tegelerios-regensburg.de).