The grant can be awarded for a period of up to four months and amounts to €1,600 a month for doctoral candidates and to €2,300 for postdocs. Travel expenses for fellows arriving from abroad will be subsidized additionally. The Leopoldina Centre of Studies assists fellows logistically. It provides the necessary working environment for the fellows’ work and facilitates exchange with other ongoing research projects and Leopoldina members. The place of work for the duration of the fellowship is the Leopoldina Centre for Science Studies in Halle (Saale). During your research you have access to the extensive collection at the Leopoldina library and archives as well as the local and regional libraries and archives.

The fellowship is aimed at young scientists and researchers who work academically in the field of the history of science in a narrower or wider sense and fit into the Leopoldina-Centre for Science Studies’ portfolio of projects and activities. This announcement is not restricted to specific disciplines or methodical approaches. Applications must be received by the Leopoldina Centre for the Study of Science by 15 December 2021.

The scholarship is named after the physician Johann Lorenz Bausch (1605-1665). Together with Johann M. Fehr, Georg B. Metzger and Georg B. Wohlfahrt, he founded the Academia naturae curiosorum, today's German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, in Schweinfurt on 1 January 1652. At the same time, he was its first president until the end of his life