Georg Braungart
Georg Kilian Braungart (born June 16, 1955 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) is a German specialist in German. He has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tübingen since 2003 .
Life
Braungart studied German, history and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau, Göttingen and Tübingen from 1975 to 1982. Between 1985 and 1993 he was a university assistant and research assistant at the German Department of the University of Tübingen at the chair of Wilfried Barner . In 1986 he got started with a thesis on the Baroque entitled “Hofberedsamkeit. Studies on the Practice of Courtly Political Speech in German Territorial Absolutism ”. The habilitation in 1993 dealt with the aesthetic of empathy as a counter-movement to deconstructivist tendencies from Johann Gottfried Herder to the fin de siècle . It is entitled “Bodily sense. The other discourse of modernity ”.
From 1994 Braungart held a chair for German Philology / Modern German Literature at the University of Regensburg , and in 2003 he was appointed to a chair for Modern German Literature in Tübingen as the successor to Jürgen Schröder .
On October 1, 2011, he succeeded Josef Wohlmuth in the honorary management of the Cusanuswerk , the Catholic Church's Episcopal Study Fund. The work with the young scholarship holders motivated Braungart to share his personal experiences and activities at the Cusanuswerk on Twitter. Braungart documents important events at the plant under the @Cusanuswerk user profile.
His brothers Wolfgang and Michael are also professors.
Research priorities
- Literary history from the baroque to the present day (with a special focus on the 17th and 18th centuries as well as classical modernism; publications on literary history from Notker the German to Martin Walser)
- History of literature and 'body history': psychology, anthropology, medicine, physiognomics
- History of literature and history of science, especially literature and geology
- Rhetoric - aesthetics - media aesthetics / 'historical media aesthetics' - multimedia in the humanities
Publications
- Court eloquence. Studies on the practice of courtly political speech in German territorial absolutism. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1986.
- Bodily sense. The other discourse of modernity (= studies on German literature. Vol. 130). Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995.
- (Mithrsg.): Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft (3rd edition / completely new version of the standard work founded by Paul Merker and Wolfgang Stammler )
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Braungart in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.litwiss.de
- http://www.braungart-web.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.cusanuswerk.de/de/startseite/archiv-aktuelles/detailansicht/deutsche-bischofskonferenz-beruft-neuen-leiter-fuer-das-cusanuswerk/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/cusanuswerk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braungart, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braungart, Georg Kilian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwäbisch Gmünd |