Erasmus Prize 2025 for Nicolas Blaue

Max Planck employee honored by University College Freiburg

Nicolas Blaue, student assistant in the Department of Public Law at our Institute, has been awarded the “Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences” by University College Freiburg (UCF), a division of the University of Freiburg. He receives the €1500 prize in the Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis category.

During his Master’s studies, Blaue analyzed key developments in the history of ideas that led to the rise of modern natural sciences, according to the UCF. In the process, he showed “how the philosophical search for truth gradually recedes in favor of a formal method of understanding nature, which risks undermining its own very foundations through its mathematical reduction of humankind.”

The UCF says the Erasmus Prize honors outstanding academic theses that build bridges by adopting an interdisciplinary approach and connecting different fields.

Alongside Nicolas Blaue, Professor of English Linguistics Axel Bohmann receives the Erasmus Prize in the category of dissertations and post-doctoral theses.