Helmut Zedelmaier (historian)

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Helmut Zedelmaier (* 1954) is a German historian .

Life

Helmut Zedelmaier studied history, German , politics and sociology at the LMU Munich and the FU Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1989 and completed his habilitation in 1996 at the LMU Munich. From 1986 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Science and University History, and in 1998/1999 and 2002/2003 he represented the professorship for Science and University History. Between 1998 and 2013 he also worked as a consultant for BMW AG and the Eberhard von Kuenheim Foundation (foundation of BMW AG). Since 1999 he has been working on and leading various historical research projects (including at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek and the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg ). From 2004 to 2013 he was managing director of the Working Group on Historical Research Institutions (AHF), and since 2004 he has been teaching as an adjunct professor at the LMU Munich. In 2014/2015 he was visiting scholar at the University of Erfurt , professorship for knowledge cultures of the European modern age. Since November 2015 he has been a research assistant at the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Modern Writing Culture and European Knowledge Transfer (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg).

His main research interests are the history of culture and knowledge in the early modern period and the 19th century.

Fonts (selection)

  • Bibliotheca universalis and bibliotheca selecta. The problem of the order of learned knowledge in the early modern period . Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-412-01191-6 .
  • The beginning of the story. Studies on the origin debate in the 18th century . Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7873-1659-0 .
  • Workshops of knowledge between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment . Tübingen 2015, ISBN 3-16-153807-2 .

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SURNAME Zedelmaier, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954