Professor Axel Körner has been Professor of Modern Cultural and Intellectual History at Leipzig University since autumn 2021. His main research interests are the cultural and political intellectual history of Europe in the 18th to the 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the history of Italy, France and Central Europe, and their transnational and transatlantic connections. His frontier research on the role of opera in the Habsburg monarchy earned him the highly endowed ERC Advanced Grant research award in 2021. Körner is involved in the planned New Global Dynamics cluster as part of Leipzig University’s Excellence Strategy applications.
The Academia Europaea currently has around 5000 members from across Europe, including nine researchers from Leipzig University.