Malte Hoge studied history and political science at the Albert Ludwig University Freiburg. He has a strong interest in German-Polish history, which he was able to pursue during his study trip to the Jagielloński University in Kraków. In autumn 2024 he undertook a six-week internship at the Herder Institute’s Science Forum and the DiHIS. Here his duties included academic editing and work on the “historical thesaurus” at Copernico.