Marie-Theres Federhofer

Marie-Theres Federhofer (* 1962 ) is a literary scholar . She lives and works in Tromsø in Norway .

Live and act

Marie-Theres Federhofer is the daughter of Hellmut Federhofer and Renate Federhofer-Königs . After training as a publishing bookseller , she studied philosophy and comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin and at the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in 1991 with an MA. In 1999, she was with a thesis on Johann Heinrich Merck at the University of Tromsø Dr. phil. PhD .

Since 2008 she has been Professor of German Literature and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Teacher Training at Tromsø University. Her main research interests are amateurism in art and science as well as the history of science of the 18th and 19th centuries.

From 2012 to 2014 she was head of the Steering Committee Norway of the German-Norwegian Study Center at Kiel University . Since October 2018 she has held the Henrik Steffens visiting professorship at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Awards

• 2019: Willy Brandt Prize (with Erik Fosnes Hansen )

Fonts

• "Moi simple amateur". Johann Heinrich Merck and Scientific Dilettantism in the 18th Century. Dissertation. University of Tromsø 1999. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2001, ISBN 3-932324-75-7 .
• Small tracks. Dilettantism and understanding of dilettantism in Georg Forster's "Views of the Lower Rhine". In: Jörn Garber, Tanja von Hoorn (Hrsg.): Nature - People - Culture. Georg Forster in the scientific field of his time. Wehrhahn, Hannover-Laatzen 2006, ISBN 978-3-86525-017-9 , pp. 197-218.
• Dilettante culture. Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos lectures. In: Stefan Blechschmidt, Andrea Heinz (Ed.): Dilettantismus um 1800. Winter, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8253-5324-7 , pp. 323–338.
• The amateur as an interpreter. Observations on the scientific work of Adelbert von Chamissos . In: Uwe Wirth, Safia Azzouni (ed.): Dilettantism as a profession. Kadmos, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86599-080-8 , pp. 47-64.
• De to cultural. The litterære and vitenskapelige blikk på nordområdene hos Adelbert von Chamisso. In: Cathrin Theodorsen, Johan Schimanski, Henning Howlid Wærp (eds.): Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Tapir, Trondheim 2011, pp. 137-160.

as editor

• with Guri Ellen Barstad: Dilettante, Dandy and Décadent. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2003, ISBN 3-932324-31-5 .
• Experiment and experimentation in the 18th century. Palatina, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-932608-24-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Nature games. Contributions to a natural historical concept of the early modern period. Palatina, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-932608-25-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• with Diana Ordubadi: Adam Johann von Krusenstern , Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff , Otto von Kotzebue , Adelbert von Chamisso: Research trips to Kamchatka. Excerpts from their works. Siberian Cultural Foundation , Fürstenberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942883-81-8 .
• (Arr.): Chamisso and the whales. With the original Latin text of the Chamissos whale script and its translation. Siberian Cultural Foundation, Fürstenberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942883-85-6 .
• with Jutta Weber: Correspondence and Transformations. New perspectives on Adelbert von Chamisso. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0010-2 .
• with Silje Gaupseth, Per Pippin Aspass: Travels in the North. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Long History of Northern Travel Writing. Wehrhahn, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-86525-334-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marie-Theres Federhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Federhofer, Marie-Theres on the website of the University of Tromsø (with picture)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Marie-Theres Federhofer at perlentaucher.de
• Works by and about Marie-Theres Federhofer  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To the author. In: Chamisso and the whales. Kulturstiftung Sibirien, Fürstenberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942883-85-6 , p. 131 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ DNSZ - German-Norwegian Study Center in Kiel on uit.no
3. ^ The Norwegian visiting professorship on the website of the Humboldt University in Berlin
4. ↑ Honor for Erik Fosnes Hansen and Marie-Theres Federhofer on zeit.de, September 6, 2019