Herbert Jaumann

Herbert Jaumann (born July 27, 1945 in Nördlingen ) is a German literary scholar . He last taught from 1994 to 2010 as a professor of German literature with a focus on the early modern period at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Herbert Jaumann studied German , English , sociology , philosophy and Spanish from 1965 to 1974 at the University of Munich and the University of Marburg . In 1974 he did his doctorate with Walter Müller-Seidel in Munich with the thesis Die deutsche Barockliteratur. A study of the history of valuation with a systematic intention. Valuation - revaluation (Print Bonn: Bouvier Verlag 1975).

From 1976 to 1979 Jaumann was a research assistant on the DFG project "Literature on TV" under the direction of Wilfried Barner and a lecturer at the University of Tübingen . After that he went for nine years as a research assistant and staff of Wilhelm Voßkamp at the University of Bielefeld . There he completed his habilitation in 1988 with the thesis Critica. Studies on the history of literary criticism between Quintilian and Thomasius . (Druck Leiden: Brill 1995). After acting as professor at the Universities of Kiel and Bielefeld, he taught for four years as a professor for German and German literature at the University of Toronto in Canada.

Since the winter semester 1994/95 Jaumann has been teaching as a professor for modern German studies at the University of Greifswald. He has been retired since autumn 2010.

Fonts

Jaumann is considered a specialist in the field of the early modern period. He wrote numerous monographs and, with Walter Erhart, edited the volume "Jahrhundertbücher". In addition to his habilitation (see above), Jaumann published the following books; here are also important articles from the last few years:

• 1979. Christoph Martin Wieland : The golden mirror and other political seals. Winkler Verlag, Munich / Zurich, ISBN 3-538-05298-0 . (Commentary and epilogue)
• 1982. Louis-Sébastien Mercier : The year 2440 [L'An 2440]. A dream of all dreams. German by Christian Felix Weisse [1772], with revision. the historical translation, explanations and an afterword. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. Improve u. supplemented new edition 1989 (ed.), ISBN 3-458-32862-9
• 1990. The German reception of Mercier's "L'An 2440". A chapter on skepticism about progress as a critique of utopia in the late Enlightenment. In: Harro Zimmermann (ed.): The German novel of the late Enlightenment . Fiction and Reality . C. Winter, Heidelberg, pp. 217-241.
• 1991. Satire between morality, law and criticism. On the debate about the legitimacy of satire in the 17th century. In: Simpliciana XIII, pp. 15-27.
• 1992. Johann Wolfgang Goethe : Wilhelm Meister's theatrical broadcast / Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship years / conversations with German emigrants. Deutscher Klassiker-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (Ed. With Wilhelm Vosskamp). ISBN 3-618-60290-1 .
• 1994. Christoph Martin Wieland. Epoch - work - effect. Beck, Munich (co-author with Sven-Aage Jørgensen, John A. McCarthy and Horst Thomé). ISBN 3-406-38490-0 .
• 1994. Rousseau in Germany. New contributions to research into its reception. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York (co-author and editor), ISBN 3-11-014078-0 .
• 1998. Kaspar Schoppe (1576-1649), philologist in the service of the Counter Reformation. Contributions to the scholarly culture of European late humanism . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main (= time leaps. Research on the early modern period, 2 issues 3/4) (co-author and publisher).
• 1999. The three-digit translatio scheme and some difficulties with the Renaissance in Germany: Konrad Celtis' Ode ad Apollinem . Lecture Greifswald 1996. In: Reception and Identity. The Cultural Confrontation of Rome with Greece as a European Paradigm , ed. by Gregor Vogt-Spira and Bettina Rommel with the participation of Immanuel Musäus. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, pp. 335-349.
• 2000th Century Books . Great theories from Freud to Luhmann . Beck, Munich. (Co-author and ed. With W. Erhart).
• 2000. Public and embarrassment. Early traces of a concept of public criticism in the theory of plagium extrajudiciale of Jakob Thomasius (1673). In: Scientia Poetica. Yearbook for the History of Literature and Science 4, pp. 62–82.
• 2001. The European Republic of Scholars in the Age of Confessionalism . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-447-04516-7 . (Co-author and ed.).
• 2001. Domains of literary studies . Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen. ISBN 3-86057-671-2 . (= Intersection points. Greifswald studies on literary studies and cultural history; 2) (Ed. With Jürgen Klein [Anglist], Bettina Rommel [Romanist] and Gregor Vogt-Spira [Latinist]).
• 2001. Iatrophilologia . Medicus philologus and analogous concepts in the early modern period. Lecture Wolfenbüttel 1998. In: Philology and knowledge. Contributions to the concept and problem of early modern philology. Edited by Ralph Häfner. Niemeyer, Tübingen (Early Modern Times, 61), pp. 151–176.
• 2002. Wording and context. Reflections on historical interpretation based on Winfried Schröder: Ur sprünge des Atheismus (1998). In: Scientia Poetica 6, pp. 131-146.
• 2002. Martin Opitz : Book of the German Poetry (1624) . Study edition with attached documents, comments and epilogue. Verlag Reclam, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-15-018214-X . (Ed.)
• 2003 . Thomasius in the literary field. Niemeyer, Tübingen (= Hallesche Contributions to the European Enlightenment; 20). (Ed. With Manfred Beetz)
• 2004 . Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period. 2 vols. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York.
  • 2004. Volume 1: Bio-bibliographical repertory (dictionary of authors). ISBN 3-11-016069-2
• 2005. Jakob Thomasius: Collected writings , Volume I: Philosophia practica. Reprint of the 4th edition Leipzig 1682. Ed. By Walter Sparn. With an introduction by Martin Gierl, Herbert Jaumann u. Walter Sparn. Verlag Olms, Hildesheim (introduction pp. 1-22).
• 2005 . Respublica litteraria as a political metaphor. The importance of the res publica in Europe from humanism to the XVIII. Century. Lecture Paris, Collège de France, December 2001. In: Les premiers siècles de la République européenne de Lettres . Edited by M. Fumaroli, M. Lion-Violet. Alain Baudry, Editions J.-M. Place, Paris, pp. 69-88 (résumé français: Respublica litteraria comme métaphore politique. Signification de Res Publica de l'humanisme au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 69-72). ISBN 2-85893-851-2 .
• 2007. Historia literaria and forms of learned collections, on both sides of periodicity. A number of considerations. Lecture at the University of Giessen, workshop SFB Remembrance Cultures, December 2000. In: Historia literaria. New orders of knowledge in the 17th and 18th centuries. Edited by Frank Grunert and Friedrich Vollhardt. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, pp. 103-112. ISBN 978-3-05-004284-8 .
• 2008 . Italy and Germany. Exchange relationships in the common scholarly culture of the early modern period. Edited with Merio Scattola a. Emilio Bonfatti. Unipress, Padova. ISBN 978-88-8098-259-3 .
• 2011 . Discourses of Scholarly Culture in the Early Modern Age. A manual. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York. ISBN 978-3-11-018901-8 .
• 2012. Jakob Thomasius, a Protestant late humanist. His dissertations and programs on the history of philosophy. In: Poetry - erudition - culture of disputation. Festschrift for Hanspeter Marti on his 65th birthday . Edited by Reimund B. Sdzuj, Robert Seidel a. Bernd Zegowitz. Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, pp. 587–603. ISBN 978-3-412-20876-9 .
• 2013. Johannes Cochlaeus on Costanzo Felici and Ortensio Lando in 1535. Aspects of the politicization of Ciceronianism in Italy and Germany. In: Middle German Literature and Italy. Contributions in honor of Emilio Bonfatti. Edited by Federica Masiero. Peter Lang, Bern a. a. (Yearbook for International German Studies. Series A, Vol. 113), pp. 85–112. ISBN 978-3-0343-1407-7 .
• 2014. Louis-Sébastien Merciers L'An 2440 (1771). Turning to the Utopian paradigm? In: ideal state or thought experiment? On the understanding of the state of the classical utopias . Edited by Thomas Schölderle. Nomos Verlagsges., Baden-Baden, pp. 207–230. ISBN 978-3-8487-0312-8 .
• 2014. "Wild Libertinism"? The case of Matthias Knutzen. In: Criminals - Freethinkers - Alchemists: Rooms of the Underground in the Early Modern Age. Edited by Martin Mulsow with the assistance of Michael Multhammer. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna, pp. 457–478. ISBN 978-3-412-20922-3 .
• 2014. Respublica litteraria: party with a program of non-party membership. Against the anachronistic misunderstanding of an ambiguous concept of the early modern period. In: Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary yearbook for research into the 18th century and its history of impact , vol. 26: Subject republic of scholars. Edited by Marian Füssel u. Martin Mulsow. Verlag Meiner, Göttingen, pp. 15–30. ISBN 978-3-7873-2756-0
• 2015. True knowledge for the République des lettres . Gabriel Naudé as a methodologist of historical criticism - on the apology pour tous les grands personnages (1625). In: Defense as an attack. Apology and Vindicatio as possibilities of positioning in the learned discourse. Edited by Michael Multhammer. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston (Early Modern Period series, 197), pp. 75–94.
• 2015. Christian Thomasius: Monthly Discussions . Reprint of the Frankfurt u. Leipzig: Weidmann, u. Hall: Saalfeld 1688–1690. Edited by Herbert Jaumann, with a foreword in vol. 5.1, p. V-LV. Verlag Olms, Hildesheim (Christian Thomasius: Selected works. Ed. By Werner Schneiders and Frank Grunert, 3 volumes in 2 half volumes each: 5.1-2; 6.1-2; 7.1-2). ISBN 978-3-487-15198-4 ; ISBN 978-3-487-15199-1 ; ISBN 978-3-487-15201-1 ; ISBN 978-3-487-15200-4 ; ISBN 978-3-487-15202-8 .
• 2016. New Discourses of Scholarly Culture in the Early Modern Era. A manual . Edited by Herbert Jaumann u. Gideon Stiening. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston. 877 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-028976-3
• 2018. "... mihi solus Christus et Tullius placet". Ortensio Landos Cicero relegatus & Cicero revocatus (1534) and the early modern paradox. Lecture Melanchthon-Haus Bretten, Symposium 2011. In: Cicero in the early modern times . Edited by Anne Eusterschulte u. Günter Frank. Verlag frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (Melanchthon writings of the city of Bretten. Commissioned by the European Melanchthon Academy, edited by Günter Frank, vol. 13), pp. 89–114. ISBN 978-3-7728-2601-6
• 2018. Johann Valentin Andreae : Turbo, sive moleste et frustra per cuncta divagans ingenium (1616). Edited, translated a. commented by Herbert Jaumann. Publishing house frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. 542 S. (JV Andreae: Gesammelte Schriften. Ed. By Bernd Roling and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Vol. 8). ISBN 978-3-7728-1434-1
• 2019. Isaac La Peyrère: Praeadamitae - Systema theologicum (1655). Translated u. with an introduction ed. by Herbert Jaumann u. Reimund B. Sdzuj with the collaboration of Franziska Borkert. Verlag frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt (Freethinkers series of the European Enlightenment, edited by Winfried Schröder, Dept. I: Texts, Volume 3, 1–2). 1096 pp. ISBN 978-3-7728-1613-0
• 2019. Why did Abel tend his sheep if there were no thieves? - Old and new on Isaac La Peyrère and his pre- Adamite thesis (1655). A supplement to the new edition and translation of the treatises. In: Scientia Poetica. Jb. For the history of literature and the sciences , Vol. 23, pp. 22-43.
• Article in several author encyclopedias, including 65 articles in the "Killy Literature Lexicon", others in the "Neue Deutsche Biographie", in the "Metzler Lexikon christlicher Denker" (2000), in "Reclam's Philosophenlexikon" (2009); the article about Ulrich von Hutten in the "author's lexicon humanism" (vol. 1, 2008) as well as conceptual art. in the "Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft" (new edit. in 3 vols., 1997-2003) and the article "literary criticism" in "The New Pauly, Reception and Science History", Vol. 15/1, 2001.
• Numerous reviews in specialist journals such as "Germanistik", "Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift", "Das 18. Jahrhundert", "Daphnis" and "Scientia Poetica" as well as in the internet journals literaturkritik.de, faust-kultur.de and sehepunkte.de .
• Since 2003 working with the translator (and wife) Jung Young-Sun for translations from Korean, including: Jo Kyung Ran: How does the elephant get into my bedroom? Stories. Pendragon publishing house, Bielefeld 2003; Jo Kyung Ran: Toast time. Novel. Pendragon Publishing House, Bielefeld 2005; Seung Hyo-Sang: Building as a sign of thought. About classics of 20th century architecture . Scientific publishing house, Trier 2007; Lee Namho et al: Korean Literature of the 20th Century . Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2011; Kim Namcheon: The Great Stream. Roman [first 1939]. Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2012; Lee Hyun Su: The Last Gisaeng . Novel. Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2013; Lim Chul Woo: The Red Room . Stories. Pendragon publishing house, Bielefeld 2003; Lim Chul Woo: Farewell Valley . Novel. Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2015; Lim Chul Woo: The quarter of the clowns. A youth in South Korea. Novel. Verlag Iudicium, Munich 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Jaumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jaumann's page at the University of Greifswald ( Memento from June 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )