Knud Haakonssen

Professor Knud Haakonssen works on early-modern moral and political thought and on the Enlightenment. His main interest is currently in natural law and natural rights from Hugo Grotius to Immanuel Kant. In addition, the intellectual historian’s central concern with texts is reflected in several large editorial projects. He is based in Copenhagen as Adjunct Professor of History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. He is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews and at the University of Sussex. At St. Andrews he was Co-Director of the Institute of Intellectual History and at Sussex Director of the Sussex Centre of Intellectual History. Until 2022 he also directed the Forschungsstelle für frühneuzeitliches Naturrecht/Research Centre for Early-Modern Natural Law at the University of Erfurt.