Jörg Jochen Berns

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Jörg Jochen Berns , b. Müller (born June 1, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

Jörg Jochen Müller (since a name change in 1974 Jörg Jochen Berns) was the son of an administrative inspector. After attending the Humanist Lessing High School in his native Frankfurt am Main , he studied German, philosophy and history at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg im Breisgau and Marburg from 1958 to 1963 . In 1964 he received his doctorate in modern German literature with a thesis on the baroque writer Johann Beer . 1964 to 1968 he received a habilitation grant from the DFG . In 1968/69 he worked as an assistant and from 1970 to 1972 as an academic adviser at the Institute for Modern German Literature at the University of Marburg. After his habilitation in 1972 with a thesis on the philosopher and playwright Justus Georg Schottelius , he was appointed university professor at the University of Marburg in the same year. In 1987/1988 he was a visiting professor at the Universitá degli Studi di Trento . In 2001 he retired. In 2017 he was Aby Warburg Endowed Professor in Hamburg .

Berns' main research interests are the history of science in German studies, court culture in the early modern period, the history of mnemonics , the history of mythography in the early modern period and the history of the German iconoclasm .

Fonts

  • The controversy of images. Texts of the German picture dispute in the 16th century. 2 vol. (= Early modern times , vol. 184). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014.
  • (Ed.): Marburg Pictures. Testimonies from five centuries. 2 volumes. (= Marburg city writings on history and culture , vol. 52/53). Marburg 1995/96.
  • (Ed.): Ceremonial as a courtly aesthetic in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (= Early modern times , vol. 25). Tübingen 1995.
  • with Detlef Ignasiak (ed.): Early modern court culture in Hesse and Thuringia. (= Jena Studies , Vol. 1). Erlangen and Jena 1993.
  • (Ed.) German Studies and German Nation 1806–1848. To the constitution of bourgeois consciousness. Stuttgart 1974.
  • Studies on the Willenhag novels by Johann Beers. (= Marburg Contributions to German Studies , Vol. 9). Marburg 1965 (also phil. Diss. 1964).

literature

  • Thomas Rahn and Hole Rößler (eds.): Media Fantasy and Media Reflection in the Early Modern Age. Festschrift for Jörg Jochen Berns. Wiesbaden 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Jochen Müller (Berns). In: Inge Auerbach : Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Volume 2, Marburg 1979.
personal data
SURNAME Berns, Jörg Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Jörg Jochen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main