Jürgen Klein (English studies)

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Jürgen Klein (born October 24, 1945 in Detmold ) is a German Anglist with a focus on English literature . From 1991 to 1994 he was a representative and from 1994 to 2011 he held the chair for English literary studies and cultural studies (humanities and cultural history of Great Britain) at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . Since 2004 he has been teaching the basics of literary understanding as well as English literary and cultural history at the Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg.

His areas of work are the history of English literature (early modern times, the Enlightenment, romanticism, classical modernism), English-German literary relations as well as the history of ideas, literary theory, the history of theory and science. He has also published works on philosophy, European cultural history, and the history of art and architecture.

Life

Klein grew up in Detmold and passed his Abitur there at the state advanced high school. He studied English, philosophy (with Julius Ebbinghaus and Klaus Reich), sociology and political science at the Philipps University of Marburg . He received a doctoral scholarship from the State of Hesse and received his doctorate in 1973 with the work The Gothic Roman and the Aesthetics of Evil. phil.

After completing his doctorate, he took on an assistant position with Christian W. Thomsen at the University of Siegen, where he completed his habilitation in 1981 with the thesis Radical Thinking in England : Modern Times . He then worked as a private lecturer in English and literature in Siegen, where he was appointed a temporary professor in 1982. In 1987, also in Siegen, he was appointed and appointed Fiebiger Professor (C3) for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Klein was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge in 1996 and 1997 and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow .

From 1991 he worked at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, initially as a chair representative (1991–1994) and from 1994 to 2011 as a professor for English literary studies. In 1995 he organized the German Anglist Day in Greifswald. He was a fellow of the former Center for Research into the Early Modern Age ( Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ) and a member of the PEARL research group at the Sorbonne III, Paris. Research and lecture activities have taken him to numerous universities in English-speaking countries and in European countries.

Klein is the founder and editor of the magazine Flandziu , a half-year publication for modern literature (since 2004; NF since 2009), as well as the book series aspects of English intellectual and cultural history and, together with Christoph Houswitschka Britannia. Studies and Texts in English . Since 2008 he has been heading the Shoebox House publishing house for literature and the humanities in Hamburg. The new book series Flandziu Collection was founded in 2015 .

Klein is a member of the Grabbe Society , the Wolfgang Koeppen Society (1st Chairman 2005–2015, member of the Board of Directors since 2015), the International Society for Intellectual History, the IAUPE (International association of university professors of English), the Anglistentag, the Society for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and the Uwe Johnson Society . He is co-editor from 1650-1850. Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era .

Publications

Monographs

  • The Gothic Novel and the Aesthetics of Evil. Scientific book society, Darmstadt 1975 (= impulses of research, volume 20).
  • Byron's romantic nihilism. (= Salzburg studies in English literature , Vol. 97), Institute for English and American Studies , Salzburg 1979.
  • Theory history as a criticism of science. Athenaeum, Königstein / Ts 1980 (= monographs on philosophical research. Volume 201).
  • England between Enlightenment and Romanticism. Studies on literature and society in a transition period. Narr, Tübingen 1983.
  • Virginia Woolf : Genius - Tragedy - Emancipation. Heyne, Munich 1984.
  • Structures of thought of the Renaissance : Ficino - Bruno - Machiavelli and the self-assertion of reason. The Blue Owl, Essen 1984:
  • Radical Thinking in England: Modern Times. Studies in human and social history. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1984.
  • Beyond Hermeneutics. On the philosophy of literature and the humanities. The Blue Owl, Essen 1985.
  • Beginnings of English Romanticism 1740–1780. Heidelberg lectures. Winter, Heidelberg 1986 (= English Research, Volume 191).
  • Astronomy and Anthropocentrism : The Copernican Turn in John Donne , John Milton, and the Cambridge Platonists. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York 1986.
  • Chronos, Titian and Shakespeare: Redesigns and variations of the ancient Kronos material in the subjectivist time mythology of the Renaissance. In: Antike und Abendland (1987), Issue 1: 53–89 [de Gruyter].
  • Francis Bacon or the Modernization of England. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1987.
  • Literary Theory and English Modernism in the Early 20th Century . The Blue Owl, Essen 1991.
  • "My love is a fever". A reading of Shakespeare's sonnets . Fink, Munich 2002.
  • Francis Bacon. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2003. Revised version 2012.
  • Elisabeth I and her time. Beck, Munich 2004. 2nd expanded edition 2010.
  • Black romance. Studies on English literature in a European context. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2005.
  • Mathematics of desire. Hamburg 2011.
  • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht : Presence. Edited with an afterword by Jürgen Klein. Suhrkamp, ​​2012.
  • England and the continent. Subjectivity and Imagination from the Renaissance to the Modern Age. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2008.
  • Venetian moments. With a poem by Rüdiger Görner . Shoebox House, Hamburg 2014.
  • Marcel Reich-Ranickis Koeppen. About a friendship. In: Literaturkritik.de, June 29, 2016
  • Dialogue with Koeppen. Wilhelm Fink, Leiden / Boston / Singapore / Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7705-6211-4 .
  • News from my library. Outsiders of modernity . Hamburg 2020: Shoebox House Verlag, ISBN 978-3-941120 -39- 6.

editor

  • Students read Joyce . Interpretations of the early work. Stephen Hero - Dubliners - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Blue Owl, Essen 1984.
  • with H.-D.Erlinger: Truth - Correctness and Exactness. The Blue Owl, Essen 1986.
  • with Johannes Kramer: JH Alsted, Herborn's Calvinistic theology and science as reflected in the English cultural reform of the early 17th century. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Bern / New York / Paris 1988.
  • State, Science, and Modernization in England from the Renaissance to the Present Time. Olms, Hildesheim / New York / Zurich 1994.
  • with Fred Burwick: The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany. Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta, GA 1996.
  • with Dirk Vanderbeke: Anglistentag Greifswald 1995. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1996.
  • Francis Bacon : New Atlantis. Reclam, Stuttgart 2003.
  • TS Eliot , poeta doctus, tradition and the constitution of classical modernism. With a contribution by Wolfgang Iser . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2003.
  • Edgar Maas and Juergen rides: Enlightenment and modernity. A gift to Peter-Eckhard Knabe. Tuebingen 2006.
  • with Anne Hegerfeldt and Dirk Vanderbeke: The Mighty Heart or The Desert in Disguise? The Metropolis between Realism and the Fantastic. Tuebingen 2007.
  • with Mascha Hansen: Great Expectations. Futurity in the Long Eighteenth Century. Peter Lang, Berlin / New York / Bern / Frankfurt 2012 (= Britannia. Texts and Studies in English , vol. 16).
  • Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Reclam, 2013.

literature

  • Detlev Hellfaier (Ed.): Lippisches Authors Lexicon , edited by Ernst Fleischhack, Volume 1, F. L. Wagener, Lemgo, pp. 108-109.
  • Michael Szczekalla (Ed.), Britain and Europe. Studies in literary, intellectual and cultural history. Festschrift for Jürgen Klein . Frankfurt 2010: Peter Lang. ISBN 978 - 3631586280.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XLVI. Edition 2007/08 (founded by Walter Habel - formerly Degeners who is it), Lübeck 2007, p. 675.
  2. Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg , accessed on July 12, 2015
  3. Shoeboxhouse Publishing
  4. Review of the Flandziu series Faust Culture
  5. iaupe.net