Gerhard Lauer

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Gerhard Lauer (born November 14, 1962 in Karlsruhe ) is a German literary scholar and professor for digital humanities at the University of Basel .

He studied German, philosophy, German as a foreign language, musicology and Jewish studies at the universities of Saarbrücken, Tübingen and Munich. In 1992 he completed his dissertation on the history of science in exile with Wolfgang Frühwald in Munich, with a minor with Robert Spaemann and Harald Weinrich . In 2000 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Judaism and its literature in the early modern period. In 2002 he was offered a chair for German Philology at the University of Göttingen (successor to Albrecht Schöne and Wilfried Barner ) and was full professor there. In 2017 he was appointed to the University of Basel, where he is professor for digital humanities . He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , co-founder of the Journal of Literary Theory and co-editor of the journal Scientific Study of Literature . He was also the chairman of the jury for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's literature prize from 2005 to 2017.

Publications

  • Reading in the digital age. wbg Academics. Darmstadt 2020. ISBN 978-3-534-26854-2 .
  • What is the digitization with the universities . Ed. Together with Bert te Wildt , Robin Schmidt, Marko Demantowsky . De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Berlin 2020. ISBN 978-3-11-067322-7 .
  • West-East elective affinities. Hans Bethge and the historical and aesthetic constellations around 1900 . Ed. Together with Yixu Lu. Königshausen & Neumann. Würzburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-8260-6879-9
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Race and Natural History, 1750-1850 . Edited together with Nicolaus Rupke. Routledge, London 2019. ISBN 978-1-138-73842-3
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt, Writings on Education . Ed. And with an afterword. Reclam, Stuttgart 2017. ISBN 978-3-15-019456-0
  • Constantin Brunner in context. An intellectual between empire and exile . Ed. Together with Irene Aue-Ben-David and Jürgen Stenzel. de Gruyter, Berlin, Jerusalem 2014. ISBN 978-3-11-037382-0
  • Herder and the arts. Aesthetics, art theory, art history . Ed. Together with Elisabeth Décultot. Winter, Heidelberg 2013. ISBN 978-3-8253-6132-7
  • Art and sensation. On the genealogy of an art theoretical question in Germany and France in the 18th century . Ed. Together with Elisabeth Décultot . Winter, Heidelberg 2012. ISBN 978-3-8253-5890-7
  • Lexicon literary studies. A hundred basic terms . Edited together with Christine Ruhrberg. Reclam, Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-15-010810-9
  • Literary contributions to generation research . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-8353-0571-7
  • The invention of the writer Thomas Mann . Edited together with Michael Ansel and Hans-Edwin Friedrich. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-020136-9
  • Limits of Literature. On the concept and phenomenon of the literary . Edited together with Simone Winko and Fotis Jannidis. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-018930-8
  • The back of the Haskala. Story of a little enlightenment . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-8353-0345-4
  • The Lisbon earthquake and the disaster discourse in the 18th century . Edited together with Thorsten Unger. Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, 2nd edition 2014. ISBN 978-3-8353-0267-9
  • Exile, Science, and Education: The Contested Legacies of German Emigre Intellectuals . Ed. with David Kettler. Palgrave Macmillian, New York 2005. ISBN 978-1-4039-6843-2
  • Rules of importance. On the theory of the meaning of literary texts . Edited together with Fotis Jannidis, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko. de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2003. ISBN 978-3-11-017558-5
  • Return of the author. To renew a controversial term . Edited together with Fotis Jannidis, Matias Martinez and Simone Winko. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999. ISBN 978-3-484-35071-7
  • The belated revolution. Erich Kahler. History of science between conservative revolution and exile . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1995. ISBN 978-3-11-014397-3

literature

  • Kai Büttner, mirror neurons in literary studies. Analysis of the scientific controversy about the approach formulated by Gerhard Lauer of a literary theory oriented towards game genes - from the perspective of the controversy as an epistemic genre - as well as critical evaluation of the position represented by Lauer . Unpublished master's thesis at the Humboldt University, Berlin 2012 (excerpts in Kai Büttner, Randigkeit der Literaturwissenschaft? Literary theory between pluralism and displacement competition. In: Theories, methods and practices of interpreting. Ed. By Andrea Albrecht et al. Berlin 2015, p. 565– 589.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Public Relations: Lauer, Gerhard, Prof. Dr. - Georg-August-University Goettingen. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/News/Uni-Info/Neuer-Professor-fr-Digital-Humanities-an-der-Universitaet-Basel.html
  3. ^ Jury of the Literature Prize - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung eV Accessed on January 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lauer, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe