For a research project exploring the history of fever, Stefanie Gänger has been awarded valuable funding from the European Research Council (ERC), an ERC Consolidator Grant. Her project studies the prevalence and experience of fever in the Atlantic World from 1750 to 1840, the historic disease concept as well as contemporary explanations and remedies. Prof. Gänger’s teaching and research is based at Heidelberg University’s Department of History, where she is Professor of Modern History. For her interdisciplinary research she will receive funding totalling approx. 1.7 million euros for a period of five years.
Given that fever was a ubiquitous and fatal ailment for men and women around 1800, surprisingly little is known about it. ...
