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Georg Leonhard Karl Andreas CHRIST (Dr. phil. des.)
Universität Heidelberg · ZUK 49/1 TP 4 Transcultural Studies · Speyerer Straße 4+6 · 69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-7862 e-mail: [email protected]
Education
2002-2006
Ph.D. summa cum laude in Medieval history at the University of Basel.
Title: Konflikte am Schnittpunkt von Orient und Okzident. Der venezianische
Konsul Biagio Dolfin in Alexandria 1418-1420 (Conflicts at the Intersection of
Orient and Occident. The Venetian Consul Biagio Dolfin in Alexandria 14181420).
Research in the State Archives in Venice, the Vatican, the Egyptian National
Library and the Institute of Arabic Manuscripts (Cairo).
1995-2001
MA summa cum laude in History, Political Economy and Islam studies.
Thesis title: Kriege, Krisen, Portugiesen: Die Störungen des venezianischen
Orienthandels in der Wahrnehmung venezianischer Kaufleute in den Jahren
1499 und 1504 nach den Diarien von Sanuto und Priuli (Wars, Crises,
Portuguese: The Disturbances of the Venetian Orient-Trade in the Perception
of Venetian Merchants in the Years 1499 and 1504, based on the Diaries of
Sanuto and Priuli).
Studies in Basel, Damascus and Strasbourg.
Teaching Experience
United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
2006-2008
Courses taught on:
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Cultural awareness
Basic language skills Hebrew and Arabic
Middle Eastern History
Induction course Lebanon (history, geography, politics, armed groups)
Swiss Army
1995-2006
(Mainly taught in French) A variety of subjects including: decision making
process, tactics, organisation and history of armed forces, laws and rules of
armed conflicts.
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Georg Leonhard Karl Andreas CHRIST (Dr. phil. des.)
Universität Heidelberg · ZUK 49/1 TP 4 Transcultural Studies · Speyerer Straße 4+6 · 69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-7862 e-mail: [email protected]
Administrative and management experience
United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation
2006-2008
Head of Mission commendation for work as UN Military Observer and Deputy
Chief Joint Mission Analysis Centre of the UN Truce Supervision
Organisation, Jerusalem (in the rank of Captain, full-time).
Tasks included the establishment of the new Joint Mission Analysis Centre;
initiating and project management of Map Preservation and Archiving Project
and Joint Operations, Security and Analysis Database (JOSAD).
Swiss Army
1996-2002
Since 2002
Infantry reconnaissance platoon leader (2nd and 1st Lt, part time)
Infantry company commander. Company engagements in embassy guarding
and other real-time urban area protection operations (1st Lt and Capt, part
time).
Extra-Professional Commitments
1995-2001
1984-2001
1993-1994
Swiss Students Union “Zofingia”, various positions, member of Central Board
YMCA (scout branch), unit-leader, chief of staff, instructor
Literary Students Association “Thurgovia”, president.
Languages
Native language
Fluently speaking/writing
Fluently speaking/writing
Fluently speaking/writing
Very good understanding and speaking skills, good reading skills (Arabic
sources for the Ph.D. thesis, research and work with UN in the Middle East)
Latin:
Very good reading and palaeographical skills
Ancient Greek: Minor reading skills
Hebrew:
Basic skills
Spanish:
Basic skills
Dutch:
Basic skills.
German:
English:
French:
Italian:
Arabic:
Grants obtained
2005-2006
2004-2005
2004
2004
Fondation pour des bourses d’études Italo-suisses, Lausanne
Deutsches Studienzentrum, Venice
Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), Cairo
Doms-Stiftung, Basel
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Georg Leonhard Karl Andreas CHRIST (Dr. phil. des.)
Universität Heidelberg · ZUK 49/1 TP 4 Transcultural Studies · Speyerer Straße 4+6 · 69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-7862 e-mail: [email protected]
2004
2004
2003
2002
Basel University Travel and Conference Fund
Istituto Svizzero di Roma a Venezia, Venice
Swiss National Fund, Berne
Deutsches Studienzentrum, Venice.
Publications
Monography
Conflicts at the intersection of Orient and Occident: A Venetian Consul in Mamlûk
Alexandria at the beginning of the 15th century, (Ph.D), Basel 2006, Leyden:
Brill (The Medieval Mediterranean), forthcoming 2009.
Book sections
«Venise et la Méditerranée orientale: les jeux d'échelle du commerce vénitien à Alexandrie à
la fin du Moyen Âge » In (Ed.): Franchini, Sandro G. ; Toscano, Gennaro ;
Gallot, Geneviève ; et al. : Venise et la Méditerranée, forthcoming.
« Contrebande, vin et révolte : lecture critique d'un conflit inter-culturel à l’ombre des
rapports officieux entre Venise et Alexandrie à l’époque médiévale. » In (Ed.):
Décobert C. and J. Y. Empereur : Alexandrie et le commerce de la
Méditerranée médiévale, Le Caire : Imprimerie de l’IFAO, forthcoming.
« Les réseaux vénitiens de navigation à Alexandrie au début du XVe siècle : Rôle promoteur
des galères et concurrence des navires rondes » In (Ed.) Valérian, Dominique
and Christophe Picard : Espace et réseaux en méditerranée médiévale, mise en
place des réseaux, les politiques d’Etat dans la formation des réseaux, Paris :
Publications de la Sorbonne, forthcoming.
“Theodor Biblianders Türkenschrift. Ein Reformator und Humanist über Religion, Moral und
kriegerischen Erfolg“ In (Ed.) Leu, Urs B. and Christine Christ-v. Wedel:
Erasmus in Zürich. Eine verschwiegene Autorität, Zürich: NZZ Verlag, 2006,
pp. 309-326.
„Das Fremde verstehen: Biblianders Apologie zur Koranausgabe im Spiegel des Basler
Koranstreites von 1542“, In (Ed.) Christ-v. Wedel, Christine: Theodor
Bibliander (1505-1564): ein Thurgauer im gelehrten Zürich der
Reformationszeit, Zürich: NZZ Verlag, 2005, pp. 107-124.
“Masking Cooperation with the Infidel: The Venetian Commercial Privileges, Political Power
and Legal Culture in Mamluk Egypt”, In (Ed.) Osmond, J. and A. Cimadina:
Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent, Pisa: Pisa University
Press, 2006, pp. 33-51.
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Georg Leonhard Karl Andreas CHRIST (Dr. phil. des.)
Universität Heidelberg · ZUK 49/1 TP 4 Transcultural Studies · Speyerer Straße 4+6 · 69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-7862 e-mail: [email protected]
Journal Article
“A Newsletter in 1419? Antonio Morosini's Chronicle in the Light of Commercial
Correspondence between Venice and Alexandria”, In Mediterranean
Historical Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2005, pp. 35-66.
Book review
“God’s Rule: Government and Islam. Six Hundred Years of Medieval Islamic Political
Thought by Patricia Crone” (Book review), In al-Masaq, Vol. 19, No. 1,
March 2007, pp. 77-79.
International collaborations
Sep 2009
Arye Maimon-Institut, Universität Trier, organized by Christoph Cluse and
Reuven Amitai: Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the
Medieval Period (1000-1500). paper on Venetian slave trade.
2008-2010
International research cooperation as part of the 6th EU Framework Programme
for Research and Technological Development by Tuchscherer, M.; J.-Y.
Empereur; et al.: Commerce et vertu : Les lieux de l'éthique marchande en
Méditerranée. Meetings planned in Alexandria, Aleppo and Rabat;
Oct 2008
Colloque, Institut National du Patriomoine (INP), Paris, coorganized with the
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; 30-31 october, comité: Sandro G.
Franchini, Geneviève Gallot, Gherardo Ortalli, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Gennaro
Toscano: Venise et la Méditerranée, paper given.
Apr 2008
Conference, Centre d’Études Alexandrines, USR 3134 du CNRS, Alexandria,
as part of the Réseau d’Excellence Européen Ramsès 2, organized by
Empereur, J.Y. and C. Décobert: Alexandrie et l’économie de la Méditerranée
médiévale, paper given.
Sep 2007
Hebrew University Jerusalem, Institute for Advanced Studies/German-Israeli
Minerva School organized by Reuven Amitai and Christoph Cluse: Slavery
and the Slave Trade in the Mediterranean Region in the Medieval Period
(1000-1500): Case Studies in Christian-Muslim-Jewish Interaction.
2005-2006
CLIOHRES.NET (“Creating Links and Innovative Overviews for a New
History Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe”), Network of
excellence, group: „Power and Culture“ Conferences in Riga, Pisa und Cardiff,
two papers given, one published.
Dec 2005
Centre d’Histoire et civilisation byzantines et du Proche-Orient médiéval,
Séminaire Espace et réseaux en méditerranée médiévale, mise en place des
réseaux, les politiques d’Etat dans la formation des réseaux, Sorbonne, (Paris),
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Georg Leonhard Karl Andreas CHRIST (Dr. phil. des.)
Universität Heidelberg · ZUK 49/1 TP 4 Transcultural Studies · Speyerer Straße 4+6 · 69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49(0)6221/54-7852 Fax: +49(0)6221/54-7862 e-mail: [email protected]
paper given: “Les relations entre Venise et le Proche-Orient : La ville portière
Alexandrie entre politique métropolitaine et les intérêts marchands”.
Apr 2005
IFAO (Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale) – ARCE (American
Research Center in Egypt): Research Programme Exercising Power in the Age
of the Sultanates: Production, Manifestation, Reception (Cairo: 2003-2007),
paper given «Les Vénitiens en Égypte: un élément clef dans la production du
pouvoir économique du sultan».
May 2004
History Workshop, Venice International University, Trade, Colonies and
Intercultural Contacts in the Venetian World, 1400-1650, (Venice), paper
given on PhD project.
Lectures
Feb 2009
Staff Infantry Brigade 7, Intelligence Branch, Winterthur, Switzerland,
„Experiences as an UN Military Observer and an Outlook on Problems of the
Current Middle East“.
Jan 2009
Zofingia Raetia, Chur, Switzerland: „Developments in Near Eastern Politics
Interpreted in the Light of Game Theory and Economics of Conflict from the
Perspective of a UN Military Observer and Intel Officer“
May 2008
10th Basler Renaissance Kolloquium (BRK), 23 May, Das Mittelmeer:
Kontakt- oder Konfliktraum? paper given: „Der Kaufmann in der Tinte:
Aspekte einer Ökonomie des Konflikts im östlichen Mittelmeerraum“
Mar 2006
Thurgovia Literary Students Society (Frauenfeld, Switzerland) Lecture on
“Islam in Europa und die Integration der Türkei in die EU”.
Feb 2006
University of Basel, Historisches Seminar, research seminar Kolloquium zur
Vormoderne, paper given: „Vergossener Wein: Ein venezianischmamlukischer Kulturkonflikt?“.
Sep 2005
Evening lectures, Presbyterian church of Frauenfeld (Switzerland), Lectures
title: “Muslime unter uns”.
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