Maria-Theresia Leuker

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Maria-Theresia Leuker (* 1957 ) is a German Dutchwoman.

Life

From 1976 to 1982 she studied Catholic theology, Dutch philology and (from 1979) history at the University of Münster . From 1986 to 1987 she was a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History II at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 1987 to 1990 she was a PhD scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk . After receiving his doctorate in 1991 as Dr. phil. In Münster she was a professor at the Institute for Dutch Philology at the University of Münster from 1990 to 1998. After her habilitation in 1998 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Venia legendi : Dutch Philology, she represented the professorship for Dutch Philology at the University of Cologne from 1999 to 2000 . Since 2000 she has been a university professor for Dutch philology at the University of Cologne .

Her research interests are Dutch literature from the 17th to 19th centuries, poetics of knowledge, colonial and postcolonial literature and literature, politics and posture in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Fonts (selection)

  • "De last van't huys, de wil des mans ...". Images of women and concepts of marriage in the Dutch comedy of the 17th century . Münster 1992, ISBN 3-7923-0633-6 .
  • Artists as heroes and saints. National and confessional mythology in the work of JA Alberdingk Thijms (1820–1889) and his contemporaries . Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8309-1116-5 .
  • (Ed.): The visible world. Visuality in 17th century Dutch literature and art . Berlin 2012, ISBN 3-8309-2725-8 .
  • with Esther Helena Arens and Charlotte Kießling: Rumphius ' Naturkunde. Circulation in Colonial Knowledge Spaces . Wiesbaden 2020, ISBN 3-447-11358-8 .

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