Travel grants disbursed by Ernst Kirsten Society
The “Ernst Kirsten Society - International Society for Historical Geography of the Ancient World" awards up to two travel grants each year (1000 euros each) for a historically and geographically motivated research trip. The research objective of this trip can be related to any field of ancient studies, but should in any case have a scientific orientation towards the studies of antiquity.
In addition, the Ernst Kirsten Society awards the Friedrich Lapp Scholarship in the amount of 1000 euros for a research trip for a young scientist to the Asia Minor region and the eastern Black Sea region. This scholarship is awarded in memory of Dr. Friedrich Lapp.
Application
Early-career researchers who are writing their Master's thesis or dissertation, for example, are eligible to apply. The application must include a résumé, a travel plan with a brief explanation of the content and an expert opinion from a university lecturer. The application deadline for all 2025 travel grants is March 1, 2025. The Executive board of the Ernst Kirsten Society shall decide on approval.
Please send applications to michael.rathmann@ku.de
Previous award winners
2024: Rebecca Kressner (Trier), Marie Theres Wittmann (Oxford)
Das „Friedrich-Lapp-Reisestipendium“ geht an Nathalie Marie Kettner (Berlin).
2023: Nirefs Markakis (Aix-Marseille), Nils Fischer (Bonn)
2022: Florian Feil (Trier), Felix Reize (Köln);
Das „Friedrich-Lapp-Reisestipendium“ geht an Eleonora Selvi (Pisa).
2020: Hülya Vidin (Frankfurt/M.)
2019: Yadigar Doğan (Antalya)
2018: Olivia Denk (Basel), Nadia Maria Kristensen (Kopenhagen)
2017: Moritz Reinäcker (Braunschweig), Christiane Braun (Aalen)
2016: Mirja Biehl (Salzburg), Nadine Viermann (Konstanz)
2015: Georgios Valsamakis (Athen), Sergio Brillante (Reims)
2014: Ekaterina Berzon (St. Petersburg), Florian Sonntag (Stuttgart)
2013: Isabella Tsigarida (Zürich), Carlos Martín Hernández (Bochum), Florian Schimpf (Frankfurt/M.)
2012: Katrin Bernhardt (Wien), Annarita Doronzio (München), Carsten Hoffmann (Berlin)
2008: Frank Hulek (Bochum)
2007: Alexander von Lünen (Darmstadt), Anna Ziel (Bonn), Daniel Kelterbaum (Marburg), Erik van Rossenberg (Leiden)
2006: Simone Martini (Trier), Tatiana Ivleva (Leiden)
2005: Julia Hoffmann (Bonn), Kathrin Jaschke (Bonn)
2004: Martin Fell (Münster), Stephanie Stock (Marburg)
2003: Leone Morelli (Lecce), Francesca Ramondetti (Leiden), Daniel Kelterbaum (Marburg)
2002: Florian Meister (Marburg), Irene Berti (Heidelberg), Fatih Onur (Antalya), Burak Takmer (Antalya),
Sören Stark (Halle-Wittenberg), Daniel Bertsch (Münster)
2001: Jochen Werner Mayer (Stuttgart), Emeri Farinetti (Leiden), Konstantinia Siouli ( Münster),
Damiana Baldassarra (Venedig)
2000: Frauke Lätsch (Stuttgart), Roland Oetjen (Heidelberg)
1999: Athanasios Vionis (Durham), Lorenzo Calvelli (Venedig), Maria Christine Wilms (Marburg), Oleg Gabelko (Moskau),
Sabine Panzram (Münster)
1998: Brigitta Schultz (Marburg), Michael Hascher (Stuttgart)
1997: Michael Rathmann (Bonn), Jörg Gerber (Freiburg), Joanita Vroom (Utrecht), Angela Bittner (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
1996: Iris von Bredow (Stuttgart), Paul Sant Cassia (Durham), Jannis Mylonopoulos (Heidelberg)
1995: Katja Sporn (Heidelberg), Sergej R. Tokhtas'ev (St. Petersburg)
1994: Christian Leschke (Freiburg), Rainer Stutz (Freiburg)
1993: Klaus Freitag (Münster), Sergei Saprykin (Moskau)