Matthias Bormuth
Matthias Bormuth (born May 16, 1963 in Bad Arolsen ) is a German medical ethicist and cultural scientist .
Life
After graduating from high school in 1981 at the Philippinum Marburg , Bormuth studied human medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the University of Göttingen . After psychiatric assistants in Frankfurt am Main and at the Jena University Clinic, Bormuth received a DFG scholarship in 1995 at the Graduate College "Ethics in Science" at the University of Tübingen and a scholarship at the German Literature Archive in Marbach. In 2001 he was with the medical ethics dissertation of life in the modern age - Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis at the University of Tuebingen in Urban Wiesing Dr. med. PhD.
From 1998 to 2008 Bormuth was a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg in the context of the Karl Jaspers letter edition and as a research assistant in the cataloging of the legacy of the medical historian and theorist Richard Koch . As a research assistant at the Chair of Ethics in Science at the University of Tübingen, he completed his habilitation in 2008 with the work Ambivalence of Freedom - Suicidal Thinking in the 20th Century .
As a Fedor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Bormuth taught and researched at City University New York (USA) and from 2010 to 2012 as a Heisenberg fellow at the University of Tübingen. In 2011, Bormuth was Adjunct Professor for European Intellectual History at Columbia University in New York (USA).
Bormuth has held a Heisenberg professorship for the history of comparative ideas at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2012 and has been head of the Karl-Jaspers-Haus since 2013. He is the chairman of the Karl Jaspers Society .
Scholarships and Awards
- 1994: Marbach scholarship holder at the German Literature Archive
- 2002: PhD award from the University of Tübingen
- 2002: Main prize of the Stehr-Boldt-Fonds of the University of Zurich
- 2010: Nietzsche Fellowship, Friedrich Nietzsche College, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Publications
Monographs
- Lifestyle in the modern age. Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis. Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002, 2nd edition 2018.
- Notes on Gottfried Benn. A "Bard of National Socialism"? Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2005.
- Mimesis and The Christian Gentleman. Erich Auerbach and Karl Löwith. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2006.
- Lifeconduct in Modern Times. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis. New York and Berlin: Springer, 2006.
- Psychiatry as a passion. Hans Heimann in memory. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2007.
- Ambivalence of freedom. Suicidal Thinking in the 20th Century. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008.
- With a handful of sand. Ingeborg Bachmann as a philosopher. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2010.
- Sketch of an accident victim. Ulrike Meinhof in her time. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2018.
- Karl Jaspers. Philosophy as a way of life. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2018.
- The variety of spiritual experience. Reflections on the history of ideas. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018.
- The casualties. Bachmann, Johnson, Meinhof, Améry. Berlin: Berenberg, 2019.
- Careers. History of ideas in conversations. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
- Erich Auerbach. Cultural philosopher in exile. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020.
Editions
- Criticism out of passion. Studies on Jean Améry. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Susan Nurmi-Schomers, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005.
- Marburg hermeneutics between tradition and crisis. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Ulrich von Bülow, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008.
- "Truth is what connects us". Karl Jaspers' art of philosophizing. Edited by Reinhard Schulz, Giandomenico Bonanni and Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009.
- Walter Kappacher: Marilyn Monroe reads Ulysses. Notes, found objects and thirteen photographs. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2010.
- Psychiatric Anthropology. On the topicality of Hans Heimann. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Frank Schneider, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013.
- Open horizon. Yearbook of the Karl Jaspers Society. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, since 2014.
- Karl Jaspers: Correspondence. Psychiatry - medicine - natural science. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth and Dietrich von Engelhardt, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
- Hannah Arendt: Socrates. Apology of plurality. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2016.
- Erich Auerbach: Real reality. Erich Auerbach in a series of letters. Selected, introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2016.
- Martin Warnke: Shake the Vasari ... Art history profiles. Edited and provided with a foreword by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017.
- Eduard Beaucamp: In the mirror of history. The Leipzig School of Painting. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Richard Hüttel and Michael Triegel, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017.
- Max Weber: Science as a Profession. Edited with contemporary feedback and a conversation with Dieter Henrich and introduced by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017.
- Erich Auerbach: The scar of Odysseus. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Berenberg, 2017.
- Michael Krüger: There is another world. Michael Krüger in conversation. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2017.
- Erdmut Wizisla: Something to do with books. Interview with Erdmut Wizisla. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2018.
- Erich Auerbach: Collected essays on Romance philology. 2nd edition supplemented with new articles, edited and provided with an afterword and primary bibliography by Matthias Bormuth and Martin Vialon, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018.
- Hannah Arendt: Friendship in dark times. Thoughts on Lessing. With essays by Mary McCarthy , Alfred Kazin and Jerome Kohn, edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2018.
- Ulrich Keicher: The street is not my territory. Ulrich Keicher in conversation. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2019.
- Peter Hamm: The nags of memory. With an obituary by Michael Krüger . Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2019.
- Karl Jaspers: Life as a Borderline Situation. A biography in letters. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
- Martin Warnke: artist legends. Critical views. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
Web links
- Internet presence on the website of the University of Oldenburg
- List of publications on the University of Oldenburg's website
- Personal press releases from the University of Oldenburg
- Literature by and about Matthias Bormuth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Deutschlandfunk nuances. Music and questions about the person from April 26, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of Matthias Bormuth , frommann-holzboog.de, accessed on August 13, 2018.
- ↑ Biographical data , uol.de, accessed on 15 December of 2019.
- ↑ Board of Directors , karl-jaspers-gesellschaft.de, accessed on December 15, 2019.
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Bormuth, Matthias |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German medical ethicist and cultural scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Arolsen |