Volkswagen Foundation finances Heidelberg historian Stefanie Gänger through its Momentum Initiative
Strategic focus on the history of medicine and the environment: Stefanie Gänger is to receive support from the Volkswagen Foundation for the thematic development of her professorship. The historian intends to deepen her present research on global histories of disease in what is called the "long nineteenth century" and to supplement it with information from the natural and environmental sciences. Stefanie Gänger teaches and conducts research as Professor of Modern History at the Department of History of Heidelberg University. ...