Elisabeth Décultot

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Élisabeth Décultot (born May 13, 1968 in Fécamp , Département Seine-Maritime , France ) is a French German studies scholar , art historian and literary scholar . Since February 2015 she has held an Alexander von Humboldt professorship at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

From 1986 to 1988 Élisabeth Décultot completed a Studium generale ( classe préparatoire ) at the Paris Lycée Henri IV and in 1988 passed the entrance exam to the École normal supérieure . She then studied German and Romance studies from 1988 to 1992 at the École normal supérieure (Paris, Rue d'Ulm), the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne) and at the Free University of Berlin . After completing the state examination in German language and literature ( Agrégation ) and studying at the Georg-August University in Göttingen (1993), Décultot became a graduate of the University of Paris VIII in 1995 with the work of Jacques Le Rider , Le discours sur la peinture de paysage dans le romantisme allemand . Fondements et enjeux d'un débat esthétique around 1800 . In 2004 she completed her habilitation at the University of Paris VIII with the writing Histoire du discours sur l'art. France-Allemagne (1750-1850).

From 1993 to 1996 Élisabeth Décultot was a lecturer and researcher at the Département d'études germaniques at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-Saint-Denis). From 1996 to 2005 she was a researcher ( Chargée de recherche ) of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in the sections Pays germaniques and Transferts culturels of the Parisian École normal supérieure . From 2005, Élisabeth Décultot was a research professor ( Directrice de recherche ) at the École normal supérieure in Paris (2005–2009), at the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin (2009–2011) and at the Center Georg Simmel of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2011–2014).

In the 2007/2008 academic year, Décultot was visiting professor of the Bavarian Elite Network at the University of Augsburg . From 2008 to 2010 she was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In 2017 she gave the Classicisms Lecture at the University of Chicago .

Since February 2015, Élisabeth Décultot Alexander von Humboldt has been professor at the German Department and the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on the European Enlightenment (IZEA) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 2020 she turned down an offer at the University of Hamburg.

Décultot is a member of the board of directors of the IZEA, the Center for Classical Research, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Center Sanssouci, the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Forum for Art History and the Dessau-Wörlitz Commission.

Élisabeth Décultot is married and has two children.

Research priorities

  • History of art theory, art historiography and aesthetics in the 18th – 19th centuries Century with special consideration of the European knowledge transfer
  • Scholarly reading and writing practices from the early modern period to the present day
  • German literature of the Enlightenment, Classical and Romantic periods in a European context

Projects and research collaborations

Exhibitions

  • 2010/2011 Musées de papier. L'Antiquité en livres, 1600-1800 . Musée du Louvre Paris.

Catalog: Musées de papier. L'Antiquité en livres, 1600–1800, Editions du Musée du Louvre / Gourcuff-Gradenigo, Paris 2010.

Catalog: as an editor with Martin Dönike, Wolfgang Holler, Claudia Keller, Thorsten Valk and Bettina Werche: Winckelmann. Modern antiquity, Munich 2017.

Scholarships and Awards

Publications

Monographs

  • Peindre le paysage. Discours critique et renouveau pictural dans le romantisme allemand , Tusson 1996.
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Enquête sur la genèse de l'histoire de l'art , Paris 2000.
  • Investigations into Winckelmann's excerpts. A contribution to the genealogy of art history in the 18th century , Ruhpolding 2005.

Editions

  • as ed. with Michel Espagne and Michael Werner : Johann Georg Wille: Briefwechsel , Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1999.
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann: De la description , Macula, Paris 2006 (introduction, translation and commentary by E. Décultot)

Anthologies

  • as ed. with Christian Helmreich: Le paysage en Allemagne et en France autour de 1800 , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1997.
  • as publisher: Ecrire l'histoire de l'art: France-Allemagne, 1750-1920 , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2000.
  • as ed. with Mark Ledbury: Théories et débats esthétiques au dix-huitième siècle. Eléments d'une enquête / Debates on Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century. Questions of Theory and Practice , Paris 2001.
  • as publisher: "Esthétique". Histoire d'un transfert franco-allemand , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2002.
  • as ed .: Lire, copier, écrire. Les bibliothèques manuscrites et leurs usages au XVIIIe siècle , CNRS Editions, Paris 2003.
  • as edited by Jacques Le Rider and François Queyrel : Le Laocoon. Histoire et réception , Paris 2003.
  • as ed. with Stefanie Buchenau: Esthétiques de l'Aufklerung , Paris 2006.
  • as ed. with Michel Espagne and Jacques Le Rider : Dictionnaire du Monde Germanique , Editions Bayard, Paris 2007.
  • as ed. with Michel Espagne and François-René Martin: Johann Georg Wille (1715-1808) et son milieu: un réseau européen de l'art au XVIIIe siècle , Paris 2009.
  • as ed. with Gilbert Hess, Elena Agazzi: Graecomania. European Philhellenism , De Gruyter, Berlin, New York Berlin 2009.
  • as ed. with Gilbert Hess, Elena Agazzi: Raffael als Paradigma. Reception, Imagination and Cult in the 19th Century , De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2011.
  • as ed. with Gerhard Lauer : Art and Sensation. On the genealogy of art theoretical questions in Germany and France in the 18th century , Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2012.
  • as ed. with Gerhard Lauer : Herder und die Künste. Aesthetics, art theory, art history , Carl Winter Verlag, Heidelberg 2013.
  • as editor: read, copy, write. Reading and excerpting skills in European literature of the 18th century , Berlin, Ripperger & Kremers 2014.
  • as ed. with Helmut Pfeiffer, Vanessa de Senarclens: Genuss bei Rousseau , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.
  • as ed. with Friedrich Vollhardt : Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary yearbook on research into the 18th century and its history of impact 27 (2015) [Topic: Winckelmann] , Meiner, Hamburg 2015.
  • as ed. with Daniel Fulda: Sattelzeit. Historiography-historical revisions , De Gruyter, Berlin 2016.
  • as ed. with Helmut Zedelmaier: Exzerpt, Plagiat, Archive. Investigations into modern writing culture , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle an der Saale 2017.
  • as ed. with Daniel Fulda, Christian Helmreich: Poetics and Politics of the History Discourse. Germany and France in the long 19th century , Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2018.
  • as ed. with Phillip Kampa, Jana Kittelmann: Johann Georg Sulzer - Enlightenment in Change , De Gruyter, Berlin 2018.
  • as ed. with Jana Kittelmann, Andrea Thiele, Ingo Uhlig: Weltensammeln. Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/1233/talk-Élisabeth-decultot/
  2. ↑ IZEA Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: IZEA :: Interdisciplinary Center for Research on the European Enlightenment. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/halle-saale/-deutschlands-nobelpreis-- geht-an-Élisabeth-d%C3%A9cultot-forscherin-der-uni-halle-erhaelt-alexander-von- humboldt -professur-838754
  4. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/alexander-von-humboldt-professoren-gekommen-um-zu-bleiben/21252798.html
  5. ↑ Humboldt Professor Elisabeth Décultot stays in Halle. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/forschung/zentrum-fuer-klassikforschung/lösungen/
  7. ↑ https://recs.hypotheses.org/category/wissenschaftlicher-beirat
  8. ↑ https://dfk-paris.org/de/person/Élisabeth-d%C3%A9cultot-903.html
  9. ↑ http://www.izea.uni-halle.de/ueber-uns/dessau-woerlitz-kommission/vorstand.html
  10. ↑ https://www.campus-halensis.de/artikel/johann-georg-sulzer-der-unbekannte-aufklaerer/
  11. ↑ https://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendung/swr2-forum/swr2-forum-der-erfinder-der-antike/-/id=660214/did=20510770/nid=660214/tk8pom/index .html
  12. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/ausstellung-zu-johann-joachim-winckelmann-der-erfinder-einer-idealen-antike/19684164.html
  13. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/2017/16/johann-joachim-winckelmann-weimar-antike
  14. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/johann-joachim-winckelmann-saenger-der-schoenheit-ld.1298858
  15. ↑ https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/kosmos-neues-aus-der-stiftung-104-4.html
  16. ^ Public spring meeting of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. In: saw-leipzig.de. Saxon Academy of Sciences , accessed April 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 21, 2005, No. 67 / Page 37: Excerpted greatness, noble originality. In: FAZ.net . March 21, 2005, accessed October 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Décultot, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Fécamp , Seine-Maritime department , France