Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD
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Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD
@fepoulsen.bsky.social
Danish/French 🇪🇺 intellectual historian 🇺🇦

🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net

🎓PhD History, European University Institute
🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen
🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
📣The next CIRICE conference in Naples June 11-13, 2026. The main topic is "Transition Cities," focusing on using digital humanities for the knowledge and conservation of urban heritage. 🔗 www.iconografiacittaeuropea.unina.it/cms/sessioni/ #urbanheritage #digitalhumanities #naples #cirice
September 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Next up: Using HTR & LLMs on his personal letters to directly connect his political thought to his reading. We're bridging the gap between the library and the mind. 🤖📜

(3/4) #AIinHumanities #EarlyModern
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Key finding: He shelved military fortification books with architecture, viewing them as one practical toolkit. 🛠️ We also mapped his print network: Paris was his source for math books, Venice for military texts.

(2/4) #HistoryOfKnowledge #BookHistory
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Presented at #NHM2025 in Reykjavík! 🇮🇸 My talk explored using digital tools to map the mind of a 17th-c. prince through his library. The findings challenge how we view early modern knowledge. 👇

(1/4) #AcademicSky #HistorianSky #DigitalHumanities
August 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We're starting today our discussion on #intellectual #history and #legal history www.iflg-thurnau.uni-bayreuth.de/de/3_veranst...
June 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Back to my Alma mater. As beautiful as ever! @eui-eu.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Here's part of the page. I don't think I can ask for a better scan as this is the one they sent and I had to pay for it. But I can try.
March 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Can any #historian experienced with #earlymodern #Latin #manuscript #handwriting recognise this #abbreviation? Sorry for the low quality, it was scanned for me by the #library and sent in a low resolution.
March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Except, in this scenario, there will soon be no cave and no prisoners, because the returning philosopher was warning about the fire producing greenhouse gases trapping the heat emitted from the sun's radiation. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
March 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Where did people vote for the far right in Germany? Pretty self-explanatory.
February 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm happy to share that I've started my 6-month Junior Fellowship funded by the @unibayreuth.bsky.social Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt". My project is hosted at the Institut fur Fränkische Langesgeschichte, situated in the enchanting Thurnau Castle www.iflg-thurnau.de
January 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I am thrilled to see my book reviewed in Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism by such a prominent scholar and expert on republicanism and early modern political thought as Rachel Hammersley. Many thanks to Rachel and the editors. My book is still in OA. doi.org/10.57928/6nn...
January 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
November 22, 2024 at 6:17 PM
🚨 Calling on INTELLECTUAL HISTORIANS 🚨 :
I am organising a symposium on 12-13 June 2025 at the University of Bayreuth. I have received many good papers from #legal #historians, but too few #intellectualhistorians, please send a proposal (deadline extended) and/or share widely.
November 22, 2024 at 6:16 PM
🚨Reminder: Next week #Symposium on Early Modern #Private #Libraries as Sites of #Knowledge @urjc Campus #Madrid-Quintana Register to attend or find the online link here: eventos.urjc.es/go/libraries
October 30, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Sometimes, readers can be just as harsh even after some 1500 years...
October 29, 2024 at 10:36 AM
I am organising an international symposium on #earlymodern #private #libraries @ URJC Madrid-Argüelles Campus on
5-6 November. Click the link for registration and info: eventos.urjc.es/go/libraries
October 24, 2024 at 10:34 AM