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Research Lines

I. Weissmann–Greiffenberg Lineage

The study of the Weissmann and Greiffenberg families as two noble family traditions rooted in Central Europe: Prussia, Germany, Austria and the Alpine–Northern Italian world.

This line of research brings together genealogy, documentary reconstruction, family memory, nobility, aristocratic culture and the question of continuity across generations.

II. Lineage, Nobility & Genealogy

The study of family memory, noble traditions, aristocratic identity, documentary traces and the historical reconstruction of European lineages.

III. Aristocratic Memory

Historical memory, identity, family narratives and the intersections between historical memory, aristocratic culture and European historical consciousness.

IV. Germanic–Alpine

The Weissmann, Greiffenberg and Gabrielli lines within Germanic, Austrian, Tyrolean and Central European contexts.

V. Mediterranean–Levantine

Italy, Spain, Greece, Greek and Mediterranean memory, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levantine horizon.

VI. Nordic–Arctic

Northern genealogical memory, Scandinavian hypotheses, migration traditions and the symbolic North.

VII. Eastern Slavic–Eurasian

Eastern European, Russian and Eurasian traces in family memory and historical reconstruction.

VIII. Symbolism & Western Esotericism

Heraldry, symbolic systems, ritual forms, Western esotericism, myth, memory, Jungian depth psychology and European intellectual traditions.

IX. Mesmerism

Mesmerism, animal magnetism, altered states, invisible forces, magnetic imagination and the cultural border between science, psychology, ritual and Western esotericism.