Robin Koch is a PhD candidate within the ERC Starting Grant project ‘LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650)’. She focuses on the support guild, societies or associations could give to their members in the language sector of early modern Europe.

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Fields of interest

Historical multilingualism
History of the language sector
Languages of the early modern Low Countries
History of language education
Archival research.

Research

By utilizing archival sources of various guilds and associations in Western Europe, Robin Koch researches the opportunities granted to so-called 'language professionals' (printers, scriveners, teachers, translators) within guilds and other associations from 1550 to 1650.

Grants and awards

Part of the ERC Starting Grant for the research project ‘LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650)’, 2026-2031.

Curriculum vitae

2020-2023: Bachelor's History at Leiden University, Cum laude
2023-2025: Research master's Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University, Cum laude
2026-present: PhD Candidate within LangPro

Selected publications

“Deriving Power from a Blessed King. The Representation King Saint Stephen I of Hungary (975-1038) for
the Legitimization of the Dynasties of the Hungarian Angevins and Hunyadi.” Leidschrift 39, no. 3
(2024): 35-56.
“Het leven van Aleit Ansem. De opname van een vijftiende-eeuwse zinneloze in het gesticht Reinier van
Arkel.” Bossche Kringen 12, no. 2 (May 2025): 20-23.
“Sint Dymphna’s zinnelozen: Zorg voor de bewoners van het Bossche Zinnelooshuis.” Silva 6, no. 2
(October 2025): 3-13.