Martin Bollacher

Martin Bollacher (born December 2, 1940 in Stuttgart ) is a retired German German philologist and literary scholar .

Life

Martin Bollacher studied German, Romance studies and philosophy at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , the Free University of Berlin and the Université de Rennes from 1960 to 1966 . In 1961 she was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . In 1966 he presented at the University of Tübingen Education Examination for teaching at secondary schools in the subjects German and French, and in 1969 with a dissertation on Goethe and Spinoza at Richard Brinkmann doctorate . The habilitationfollowed in 1977 in Tübingen with a study on the problem of religious enlightenment in Lessing's late writings . From February to June 1981 he was an exchange lecturer at Washington University , St. Louis . From 1986 until his retirement in 2007 he taught as a full professor for modern German literary history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Several DAAD and DFG short-term lectureships and lecture tours have taken him to South Korea and Japan (1998), Russia (2001), Georgia (2002 and 2015), India (2003), PR China (2004 and 2014).

research

Martin Bollacher's research focuses on historical , exegetical and intercultural aspects in the literature of the Enlightenment and the age of Goethe , Romanticism and the 20th century , the relationship between literature and philosophy / theology as well as German-French and German-Jewish literary relations . His dissertation documents the long-denied or marginalized importance of the Dutch-Jewish philosopher Benedictus [Baruch] de Spinoza for Goethe's early work. In the Habilitation Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's later writings (Publication of be Reimarus - Fragments , The Education of the Human Race ) interpreted in the context of contemporary education positions. Further fields of work are in particular the works of Johann Gottfried Herder ( philosophy of history , annotated edition ) and Elias Canettis ( poetology , intercultural references).

Fonts

author

• The young Goethe and Spinoza. Studies on the history of Spinozism in the epoch of storm and urge. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1969. 253 S; Reprint and eBook Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-138294-4 . On-line
• Lessing: Reason and History. Investigations into the problem of religious enlightenment in the late writings. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 1978. 361 pp. ISBN 3-484-18052-8 ; Reprint and eBook Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-484-18052-9 .
• with Michael Behal, Jürgen Brummack, Bernhard Mann, Jürgen Walter. Heinrich Heine: Epoch - Work - Effect. Workbooks for literary history lessons. CH Beck, Munich 1980. 366 pp. ISBN 3 406 07946 6 .
• Wackenroder and the early Romantic conception of art. Research yields. Vol. 202. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983. 156 pp. ISBN 3-534-08601-5 .

editor

• Mithrsg. by Johann Gottfried Herder: Works in ten volumes. German classic publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1985-2000.
• Johann Gottfried Herder: Ideas for the philosophy of the history of mankind. Vol. 6 of the works in ten volumes. Text and comment. Frankfurt a M. 1989. 1214 pp. ISBN 3-618-60760-1 .
• with Roger Henrard and Wim Klever. Studia Spinozana. Vol. 5: Spinoza and Literature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1989. 475 pp. ISBN 3-88479-546-5 .
• Johann Gottfried Herder: History and Culture. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1994. 414 pp. ISBN 3-88479-816-2 .
• with Jürgen Brummack. Johann Gottfried Herder: Writings on philosophy, literature, art and antiquity 1774–1787. Vol. 4 of the works in ten volumes. Text and comment. Frankfurt a. M. 1994. 1486 pp. ISBN 3-618-60740-7 .
• with Bettina Gruber. I remembered that: childhood and youth in the German-language autobiography of the present. Bonifatius, Paderborn 2000. 165 pp. ISBN 3-89710-080-0 .
• Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck: pouring out the heart of an art-loving monastery brother. Text and comment . Reclam, Stuttgart 2005. 206 pp. ISBN 3-15-018348-0 .
• with Thomas Kisser and Manfred Walther. A new look at the world. Spinoza in literature, art and aesthetics. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010. 275 pp. ISBN 978-3-8260-4195-2 .
• Mithrsg. the Bochum writings on German literature. Modern German dissertations. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M., Vol. 1 (1987) - Vol. 74 (2013).

Varia

• Christian Kluwe / Jost Schneider (eds.): Humanity in a pluralistic world? Thematic history and form analysis studies on German-language literature. Festschrift for Martin Bollacher. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2000. 349 pp. ISBN 3-8260-1914-8 .
• Oxana Zielke (Ed.): Nathan and his heirs. Contributions to the history of the concept of tolerance in literature. Festschrift for Martin Bollacher. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005. 195 pp. ISBN 3-8260-2901-1 .
• Elias Canetti: I expect a lot from you. Letters 1932–1994. Edited by Sven Hanuschek and Kristian Wachinger. Hanser, Munich 2018. 864 p. Therein 10 letters to Martin Bollacher. ISBN 978-3-446-26019-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Bollacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Martin Bollacher at the Ruhr University Bochum