Moritz MAURER

Moritz MAURER

Research Fellow (2024–2025)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moritz Maurer is a Research Fellow (2024–2025) at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He studied Religious Studies at the University of Heidelberg (B.A. 2012; M.A. 2015) and Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental Studies in London (M.A. 2015). He completed his doctorate at the Institute for Religious Studies at Heidelberg University in 2022 with the support of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. In 2024, the doctoral thesis was published as Kosmos, Gesellschaft, Religion by de Gruyter in the series Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten. From 2022 to 2023, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Religious Studies at Heidelberg University. He teaches at the Universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt and works for the DFG long-term project Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary at Ruhr University Bochum. His research focusses on the history of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism and modern esotericism, with a particular interest in questions of identity and mediality. As a Research Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, he explores the reception of Iranian religious history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and Traditionalism.