Heinz Thoma (Romanist)
Heinz Thoma (born December 29, 1944 in Furtwangen ) is a German Romanist who primarily dealt with the Enlightenment .
Life
Heinz Thoma was a professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . From 1994 to 1998 he was managing director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research into the European Enlightenment and until 2003 spokesman for the research group “Self-Enlightenment of the Enlightenment”. From 2005 to 2007 he was the spokesman for the excellence initiative “Laboratory Clarification” in Jena / Wittenberg. Thoma has been retired since September 2010.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research into the European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University, he also founded and supervised the Halle contributions to the European Enlightenment and was in charge of the scientific editing of the journal Grenzganges .
Thoma has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1997 . He is also a corresponding member of the interdisciplinary institute for cultural history of the early modern period at the University of Osnabrück . He published the European Enlightenment Manual .
Web links
- Biography and more recent works
- Literature by and about Heinz Thoma in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thoma, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Furtwangen |