Brief Biography

Simon Adler received his PhD in 2018 from the University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College) and completed his Masters in Economics at the College of Europe (Bruges). His PhD thesis examined the contribution of the Austrian enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century. Since 2019 Simon Adler is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Leo Baeck Institute in London.

Research interests

Period: 1750 - c. 1918
Area: Europe; the Habsburg monarchy in a European context
Topics: Political economy; intellectual history; economic thought and ideas; banks and finance; Zinzendorf

Publication

• Politische Ökonomie in der Habsburgermonarchie 1750-1774. Der Beitrag von Ludwig Zinzendorf (Springer International Publishing 2025)
• Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750-1774. The Contribution of Ludwig Zinzendorf (Palgrave, 2020).
• Intellektueller Austausch im Finanzwesen Die Rechenkammern in der Habsburgermonarchie und in Preußen, in: Bettina Braun (Hg.): Konkurrenz und Transfer. Das preußisch-österreichische Verhältnis im 18. Jahrhundert (Bielefeld, 2023)
• Uztáriz in the German-Speaking World: Karl Zinzendorf’s Commercial Travels to Spain in 1767 (Springer, 2025)