Gerda Henkel Prize

The Gerda Henkel Prize is a biennial award recognising outstanding research achievements in the historical humanities and the foundation's current funding priorities. It is open to individual scholars or teams whose work is internationally recognised. The prize is endowed with €100,000, intended for free use by the recipient(s). Nomination is by universities and notable cultural or scientific institutions; self-nominations are not permitted.

€100,000 prize money; increased visibility; expectation to publish the prize lecture within six months.

The prize is open to individual scholars and teams with outstanding research in the foundation's disciplines; nominations must be submitted by universities and reputable cultural or scientific institutions. Self-nominations and nominations of organisations are not permitted; members of the foundation's bodies, jury and staff cannot be nominated.

International nomination by universities and recognised cultural or scientific institutions (one proposal per nominator); required documents include nomination form, signed justification, academic CV, and list of main publications from the last five years.