
sarah.deichstetter(at)oeaw.ac.at
+43 (1) 51581-7338
Sarah Deichstetter is a research associate in the research unit Art History.
Sarah Deichstetter studied German Philology and Dutch Studies at the University of Vienna and is currently pursuing a PhD on literacy and scribal practices among the Augustinian canonesses at Klosterneuburg Abbey. She worked as a sub-librarian at the Klosterneuburg Abbey Library (2018–2021) and contributed to the FWF-funded project Ancient Book Crafts (ABC) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2022–2023). Since 2023, she has been part of the FWF-funded project Pre-Modern Inscriptions and the Shaping of Self-Conception and Self-Representation (PREMISES), where she leads the citizen-science-initiative Communities Intertwined: Visualising Inscribed Space (CIVIS). In October 2024, she joined the research project "Salvation Economics and Media. Constituting Social Spaces via Early Modern Pilgrimage in Lower Austria (SALVEMED)", also funded by the FWF.
Period: Late Middle Ages, Early Modern Period
Area: Central Europe, Southern Germany, Austria
Topics: Female monasticism, library and collection history, piety and devotion