Benjamin Jeremias Schmidt, MA

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (2026–2032)

• 2026–2029: Research Associate the project IRP24:
  Production, Use and Transmission of Administrative Documents on the Village Level in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan. A Case Study of the Uchiura Region

Research Interests

• Cultural and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern Japan
• Regional History; Documents and Archiving Practices

CV

• Since 01/2026: PhD candidate and Doctoral researcher in Japanese Studies at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures of the University of Hamburg
• 02–09/2022; 02/2024–09/2024; 01–09/2025: Research Assistant in Japanese Studies at the University of Bonn
• 10/2021-10/2024: Asian Studies (M.A.) at the University of Bonn
• 10/2022–08/2023: Research Student in Japanese History at the University of Tsukuba
• 10/2017-07/2021: History and Japanese Studies (B.A.) at the Ruhr University Bochum