Joachim Küpper

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Joachim Küpper (born January 22, 1952 in Recklinghausen ) teaches Romance studies and general and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

After studying Romance Studies and History at the Universities of Bochum , Paris and Toulouse , Küpper worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1977 . After a doctorate (1980) and habilitation (1987), he accepted an appointment at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in 1989 .

In the summer semester of 2009, he switched to the professorship for Romance Philology and General and Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin . He turned down numerous other calls, including to Tübingen , Bonn and Cologne .

From 2007 to 2015 Küpper worked as (founding) director of the Dahlem Humanities Center . From 2003 to 2010 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore, and from 2009 to 2016 Directeur de recherche invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

Awards and memberships

Küppers achievements have been recognized with numerous and significant awards. Two smaller prizes for the doctoral thesis (1980) were followed by the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (1987), the Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (2001) and finally an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2009) .

From 2001 to 2015 Küpper was the editor in charge of the comparative journal Poetica , from 1997 to 2015 co-editor of the Romance Yearbook .

Küpper has been a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 2008, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2010 . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; since 2018 he has been a corresponding member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

Services

The reason for the award of the Leibniz Prize states that his work is groundbreaking insofar as it combines a literary-historical with a literary-theoretical interest and makes it fruitful for philology. Küpper occupies a leading position in the field of literary Romance studies.

Fonts

  • Discourse renovation with Lope de Vega and Calderón. Studies on the Spanish baroque drama. With a sketch on the evolution of the discourses in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Mannerism (= Romanica Monacensia. Vol. 32). Narr, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-87808-770-5 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper).
  • The unleashed significance. Quevedo Sueños, a satire on the discourse of the late Renaissance (= German university publications. Vol. 419). Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach et al. 1992, ISBN 3-89349-419-7 .
  • Petrarch. The silence of Veritas and the words of the poet. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2002, ISBN 3-11-017557-6 .
  • On the Italian novel of the 19th century. Foscolo, Manzoni, Verga, D'Annunzio. Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08104-6 .
  • The Cultural Net: Early Modern Drama as a Paradigm. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-053638-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Küpper. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Joachim Küpper (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter K. (PDF; 670 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ DFG press release No. 53 (December 8, 2000) ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Küpper, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen