Gideon Stiening

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Gideon Stiening (* 1965 ) is a German literary scholar and science organizer .

Life

As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation , Gideon Stiening studied modern German literature and language and philosophy at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1987 to 1993 . He did his doctorate on Friedrich Hölderlin in 2000 with the thesis Epistolare Subjectivity. The narrative system in Friedrich Hölderlin's letter novel "Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece" and qualified as a professor in Munich in 2009 with literature and knowledge in the work of Georg Büchner. A study of his political, scientific and literary writings . He was visiting professor and substitute professor in the Department of Modern German Literature at the Karl-Franzens University Graz , the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and the University of Heidelberg .

research

Gideon Stiening's research and work priorities are modern literary history , legal philosophy of the European Enlightenment , the history of science from the 17th to the 19th centuries, as well as the organization of science within institutionally organized basic research in the scientific disciplines of literature, philosophy and law, funded by the German Research Foundation . He stood out in particular through his work on the history of science on Georg Büchner .

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Epistolar subjectivity. The narrative system in Friedrich Hölderlin's letter novel "Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece". Tübingen: De Gruyter 2005.                                                                                     
  • Literature and knowledge in Georg Büchner's work . A study of his political, scientific, and literary writings. Berlin et al: De Gruyter 2019.

Editing

  • [together with Frank Grunert]: Werkprofile. Philosophers and writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. So far 10 volumes. Berlin et al: De Gruyter 2011.
  • [together with Martin Mulsow and Friedrich Vollhardt ]: Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary yearbook for research into the 18th century and its history. From volume 29. Hamburg: Felix Meiner 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Stiening, Gideon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and science organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965