Hans Erich Bödeker

Hans Erich Bödeker (* 1944 in Bielefeld ) is a German historian . He mainly researched the Age of Enlightenment and book and reader history. For a long time he worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen , after which it was rededicated, he was at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science .

Life

Bödeker studied history, philosophy and Romance studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum between 1967 and 1973 . Between 1973 and 1977 he was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History III and later a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History I at the Ruhr University in Bochum. From 1977 to 2006 he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, and from 2006 to 2009 he was a research fellow at the MPI for the History of Science in Berlin. He received his PhD in 1983.

Bödeker was visiting professor at various locations and universities: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (1987), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1992), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris (1992, 2002), European University Institute , Florence (1999/2000, 2003), Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City (2008), Eötvös Loránd University , Budapest (2012), Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) (1994/1995).

His research interests are the history of science in the human and social sciences in the early modern period, books and readers' history, the history of political theory of the German Enlightenment, the cultural history of the Enlightenment and Georg Forster (1754–1794).

Academic offices and functions

• 1989 to 1996 board member of the Wolfenbüttel working group for book history
• 1991–1993 member of the board of the European Center for Enlightenment and Pietism Research at the Martin Luther University , Halle-Wittenberg
• 1994–2010 on the board of the Lessing Academy , Wolfenbüttel
• 1996–2001 on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, Paris
• 1999–2010 member of the jury of the Lessing Prize for Criticism (Lessing Academy, Wolfenbüttel)
• since 1999 member of the historical commission of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt a. M.

Awards

• 2008 appointment as Doctor et Professor honoris causae of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 2012 appointment as profesor affiliado des Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City

Publications (selection)

• Enlightenment and history. Studies on German History in the 18th Century , ed. together with Georg G. Iggers , Jonathan B. Knudsen and Peter H. Reill , Göttingen 1986 (2nd edition 1992).
• About the process of the Enlightenment in Germany in the 18th century. People, institutions, media , ed. together with Ulrich Hermann, Göttingen 1987.
• Enlightenment as politicization - politicization of the Enlightenment , ed. together with Ulrich Hermann, Hamburg 1987.
• Old Europe, Ancien Regime, Early Modern Times. Problems and Methods of Research , ed. together with Ernst Hinrichs , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1991.
• Early modern times - early modern times? Research on the complexity of transition processes , ed. together with Rudolf Vierhaus et al., Göttingen 1992.
• (Ed.): Histoires du livre. Nouvelles orientations , Paris 1995.
• Science as cultural practice, 1750–1900 , ed. together with Peter H. Reill and Jürgen Schlumbohm , Göttingen 1999.
• Literacy and literalization in Germany in the early modern period , ed. together with Ernst Hinrichs, Tübingen 1999.
• (Ed.): History of Concepts, History of Discourse, History of Metaphors , Göttingen 2002 (2nd edition 2002, Russian translation 2010).
• Le concert et son public. Mutations de la vie musicale en Europe de 1780 à 1914 (France, Allemagne, Angleterre) , ed. together with Patrice Veit and Michael Werner , Paris 2002.
• Biographical Encyclopedia of the German Enlightenment , ed. together with Rudolf Vierhaus, Munich 2002.
• (Ed.): Writing a biography , Göttingen 2003.
• Experience the world. Travel as a cultural encounter from 1780 to today , ed. together with Arnd Bauerkämper and Bernd Struck, Frankfurt a. M., New York 2004.
• Beyond the discourses. Enlightenment Practice and the World of Institutions from a European Comparative Perspective , ed. together with Martin Gierl, Göttingen 2007.
• Les sociétés de musique en Europe, 1700–1920. Structures, pratiques musicales, sociabilités , ed. together with Patrice Veit, Berlin 2007.
• Library as archive , ed. together with Anne Saada, Göttingen 2007.
• (Ed.): Structures of the German Early Enlightenment, 1680–1720 , Göttingen 2008.
• The science of humans in Göttingen around 1800. Scientific practices, institutional geography, European networks , ed. together with Philippe Büttgen and Michel Espagne , Göttingen 2008 (French translation 2010).
• Organizateurs et formes d'organisation du concert en Europe, 1700–1920. Institutionnalisation et pratiques , ed. together with Patrice Veit and Michael Werner, Berlin 2008.
• Espaces et lieux de concert en Europe, 1700–1920. Architecture, musique, société , ed. together with Patrice Veit and Michael Werner, Berlin 2008.
• Nazi looted property, Reich Exchange Office and Prussian State Library. Lectures at the Berlin Symposium on May 3rd and 4th 2007 , ed. together with Gerd-Josef Bötte, Munich 2008.
• Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Enlightenment , ed. together with Clorinda Donbato and Peter H. Reill, Toronto 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Erich Bödeker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the University of Göttingen about Bödeker

Individual evidence

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