David Nirenberg

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David Nirenberg (born 1964 in New York City ) is an American historian.

Life

David Nirenberg studied at Yale University from 1982 and received his BA in 1986. He received his doctorate in history from Princeton University in 1992 . Nirenberg has taught at Rice University and Johns Hopkins University . He was visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris , at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

He has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Chicago since 2006 and is a member of the Committee on Social Thought . Nirenberg works on the history of religious traditions in Europe. He has been Dean of the University's Social Sciences Division since 2014. He writes regularly for The Nation , The New Republic and the London Review of Books . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Nirenberg is married to the philologist Sofía Torallas Tovar.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Aesthetic theology and its enemies: Judaism in Christian painting, poetry, and politics . Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2015
  • Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014
  • "Jewish" as a Political Concept: A Critique of Political Theology . From the English by Karin Wördemann. Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl. 2013
  • Judaism as a Political Concept. Historical humanities . Göttingen: Wallstein-Verl. 2013
  • Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition . New York: WW Norton, 2013
    • Anti-Judaism: Another History of Western Thought . From the English by Martin Richter. Munich: Beck, 2015
  • with Herbert Kessler: Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
  • How Jewish was Medieval Spain? : the perspective of literature . Trier: Kliomedia, 2005
  • Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996
  • Violence and the persecution of minorities in the Crown of Aragon: Jews, lepers and Muslims before the Black Death . Dissertation PhD, Princeton University, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Nirenberg appointed next dean of Social Sciences Division , University of Chicago, 2014
  2. ↑ David Nirenberg , CV, at University of Chicago
  3. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Nirenberg, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City