Martin Mulsow

Martin Mulsow (born October 14, 1959 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German philosopher and historian who specializes in research into the history of ideas in the early modern period . He is director of the Gotha Research Center at the University of Erfurt , where he holds the chair for knowledge cultures in modern European times.

Professional background

Mulsow received his doctorate in philosophy with Dieter Henrich at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1991 and completed his habilitation there in 2000. 2001–2005 he was the head of a sub-project at the Collaborative Research Center 573 at the University of Munich, from 2005 to 2009 (together with Winfried Schulze and Ulrich Beck ) Head of a sub-project at the Collaborative Research Center 536.

From 2005 to 2008 he was professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA). Mulsow has held the professorship for knowledge cultures of modern European times at the University of Erfurt since 2008 and director of the research center for cultural and social science studies in Gotha.

In 2002/3 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in spring 2005 visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, 2007/8 member of the Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton and 2012/13 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Together with Jörg Rüpke , he heads the college research group “Religious Individualization in a Historical Perspective”.

Mulsow is editor and co-editor of various book series ( early modern times at De Gruyter, humanistic library at Fink-Verlag, Friedenstein research at Franz Steiner Verlag, sources and representations on the history of anti-trinitarianism and socinianism in the early modern period at De Gruyter), as well as a member of Editor in the magazine for the history of ideas and member of the advisory board of the publishing house of world religions. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Wolfenbüttel working group for baroque research and was vice-president of the German Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century from 2010 to 2014.

Prizes and awards

He has received various prizes for his work, including the “Premio internazionale di storia della filosofia Luigi de Franco” in 1999 for the best book in the field of Renaissance philosophy, the Karl Jaspers Prize from the University of Oldenburg in 2004 and the “Selma V. Forkosch prize ”, which is awarded annually for the best article in the Journal of the History of Ideas . In 2011 he received the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, endowed with 30,000 euros .

Mulsow has been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2012 .
For 2013 he was awarded the Thuringian Research Prize.
In 2014 he received the Anna Krüger Prize from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .
In 2016 Mulsow was elected a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences .

Research priorities

Mulsow conducts interdisciplinary early modern research, which is located between the history of philosophy, the history of ideas, historical anthropology and cultural history. He deals with Renaissance philosophy, practices of early modern scholarship, socinianism, libertinage érudit, clandestine literature (forbidden radical works that only circulated in handwritten copies), early enlightenment and secret societies of the German enlightenment, radical enlightenment , as well as theoretical considerations on methodology (constellation research) and on process research) the modern. In Gotha he heads a graduate school "Underground Research".

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Early modern self-preservation. Telesio and the natural philosophy of the Renaissance. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998. (Dissertation)
Monad doctrine, Hermetics and Deism. Georg Schades Secret Enlightenment Society 1747–1760. Meiner, Hamburg 1998.
The three rings. Tolerance and clandestine learning from Mathurin Veyssière La Croze (1661–1739). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001.
Modernism from the underground. Radical early enlightenment in Germany 1680–1720. Habilitation thesis. Meiner, Hamburg 2002. (English translation: Enlightenment Underground. Radical Germany 1680–1720. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville 2015)
Free spirits in the Gottsched circle. Wolffianism , student activities and criticism of religion in Leipzig 1740–1745. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0202-0 .
The indecent republic of scholars. Knowledge, Libertinage and Communication in the Early Modern Age. Metzler Stuttgart 2007. (English translation: Decorum and Discorder: The Republic of Letters 1550–1750. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor)
Precarious knowledge. Another story of ideas from the early modern period . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-58583-2 . [French Translator: Savoirs précaires. Pour une autre histoire des idées à l'époche modern . Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris 2018].
Radical early enlightenment in Germany 1680-1720 . Vol. 1: Modernism from the underground , Vol. 2: Clandestine reason . Wallstein, Göttingen 2018.

Published works

with R. Häfner, F. Neumann and H. Zedelmaier: Johann Lorenz Mosheim . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997.
with H. Zedelmaier: Skepticism, Providence, Polyhistory. Jakob Friedrich Reimmann (1668–1743) . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1998.
with H. Zedelmaier: The Practices of Erudition in the Early Modern Age . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001.
The end of hermetism. Historical criticism and new natural philosophy in the late Renaissance. A documentation of the debate about the dating of the Hermetic Scriptures from Genebrard to Casaubon. (Religion and enlightenment). Mohr-Siebeck Tübingen 2002.
with S. Pott and L. Danneberg: The Berlin Refuge, 1680–1780. Learning and Science in European Context . Brill, Leiden 2003.
with RH Popkin: Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe . (= Brill's Studies in Intellectual History). Brill, Leiden 2004.
with J. Rohls: Socinianism and Arminianism. Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in 17th Century Europe . Brill, Leiden 2005.
with M. Stamm: constellation research. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2005.
with Jan Assmann : Flood and memory. Remembering and forgetting the origin. Fink, Munich 2006.
Late Renaissance Philosophy in Germany 1570–1650 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009.
with T. Müller: Think Tanks. (= Magazine for the history of ideas . Issue 3.3). Beck, Munich 2009.
with A. Mahler: The Cambridge School of the History of Political Ideas . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010.
Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment: Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768) . Brill, Leiden 2011
with G. Naschert: Radical Late Enlightenment in Germany. (= Yearbook Enlightenment, 24) Meiner, Hamburg 2013
with Friedrich Vollhardt : Nature. (= Yearbook Enlightenment. Volume 25). Meiner, Hamburg 2014
with Jonathan Israel : Radical education . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2014
with D. Sangmeister: Subversive Literature. Erfurt authors and publishers in the age of the French Revolution. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014
Criminals - free thinkers - alchemists. Underground spaces in the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 2014.
with A. Mahler: Texts on the theory of the history of ideas . Reclam, Stuttgart 2014.
with Frank Rexroth : What can be considered scientific. Practices of demarcation in pre-modern scholarly environments . Campus, Frankfurt 2014.
with U. Beck: Past and Future of Modernity . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014.
with A. Kemmerer: Long lead (= magazine for the history of ideas , issue 9.1). Beck, Munich 2015.
with M. Füssel: Scholars' Republic (= Yearbook Enlightenment , Volume 26). Meiner, Hamburg 2015.
with A.-S. Rous: Secret mail. Cryptology and steganography of diplomatic correspondence in European courts during the early modern period . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015.
with KR Eskildsen and H. Zedelmaier: Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764). Scholarly practice between Christian humanism and the Enlightenment. Steiner, Stuttgart 2017.
with AC Cremer: Objects as Sources for Historical Cultural Studies. Status and prospects of research . Bölau, Cologne 2017.
Global Intellectual History 2/1 (2017): New Perspectives on Global Intellectual History (with contributions by C. Ginzburg, S. Subrahmanyam, K. Raj, K. Haakonnssen and R. Whatmore).
with D. Sangmeister: German Pornography in the Enlightenment . Wallstein, Göttingen 2018.
with M. Hilgert: Keile (= magazine for the history of ideas , issue 12.4). Beck, Munich. 2018.
with A. Ben-Tov: Knowledge and Profanation. Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship . Brill, suffering. 2019.
with M. Fuchs, A. Linkenbach, B. Otto, R. Parson and J. Rüpke: Religious Individualisation. Historical Dimensions and Comparative Perspectives . De Gruyter, Berlin. 2019.

Web links

Homepage of the University of Erfurt
Martin Mulsow in the Who is Who at the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)
Gotha research center for cultural and social science studies
Literature by and about Martin Mulsow in the catalog of the German National Library
opac.uni-erfurt.de
Urs Hafner: Enlightenment is a mode of action. The historian Martin Mulsow creates a new picture of the German Early Enlightenment , in: NZZ, November 9, 2018.

Remarks

↑ Website of the Max Weber College ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the University of Erfurt. @1@ 2

↑ Caspar Hirschi : The Devianz Ornithologist. With his studies of burned books and banned authors, Martin Muslow has recovered lost knowledge from the underground of the archives . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 17, 2014, p. N4.

personal data
SURNAME	Mulsow, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buchholz in the north heath

[1] Website of the Max Weber College ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the University of Erfurt. @1@ 2

[2] Caspar Hirschi : The Devianz Ornithologist. With his studies of burned books and banned authors, Martin Muslow has recovered lost knowledge from the underground of the archives . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 17, 2014, p. N4.