Jan-Henrik Witthaus

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Jan-Henrik Witthaus (* 1970 ) is a German Romanist .

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Witthaus studied general and comparative literature, Romance studies and art studies at the Universities of Duisburg and Essen from 1992 to 1999. He then did his doctorate with Siegfried Jüttner at the University of Duisburg-Essen. After receiving his doctorate in 2003, he completed his habilitation in 2009.

He taught at the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Stuttgart and Kassel. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Romance Literature at the University of Kassel.

His main research interests include the Enlightenment in Spain, the concepts of economics and money in literary texts, the discourse history of the milieu in France and Spain as well as early modern scientific prose in France and Spain. From 2002 to 2007 he was involved in the DFG project Culture Transfer in Europe: The Interest in Germany in the Spanish Press at the Time of Enlightened Absolutism (1736–1808) .

Fonts (selection)

  • Telescope and rhetoric. Strategies of Evidence from Fontenelle to La Bruyère . Heidelberg 2005 (New Forum for General and Comparative Literature Studies. 28).
  • Socialization of Criticism in the Spain of Enlightened Absolutism. From Feijoo to Jovellanos . Frankfurt am Main 2012 (Analecta Romanica. 77).
  • (as editor) Contributions to the nationalization of culture in Spain of enlightened absolutism . Frankfurt am Main 2010 (European Enlightenment in Literature and Language. 23).
  • (as editor with Angela Osten) From milieu to matrix. The urban environment as a form of knowledge and the appropriation of space in the city in modern France . Freiburg i. Breisgau 2014.
  • (together with Christian von Tschilschke ) “Dossier: Los intelectuales españoles y el tema de África: desde el colonialismo en Marruecos hasta la Primavera Árabe”, in: Iberoamericana 56 (2014), pp. 87–165.
  • (as editor with Patrick Eser) Rulers of modernity. On the representation of political rule and physicality , Bielefeld 2015.

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