Matthias Bormuth

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Matthias Bormuth (born May 16, 1963 in Bad Arolsen ) is a German medical ethicist and cultural scientist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981 at the Philippinum Marburg , Bormuth studied human medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and at the University of Göttingen . After psychiatric assistants in Frankfurt am Main and at the Jena University Clinic, Bormuth received a DFG scholarship in 1995 at the Graduate College "Ethics in Science" at the University of Tübingen and a scholarship at the German Literature Archive in Marbach. In 2001 he was with the medical ethics dissertation of life in the modern age - Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis at the University of Tuebingen in Urban Wiesing Dr. med. PhD.

From 1998 to 2008 Bormuth was a research assistant at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Heidelberg in the context of the Karl Jaspers letter edition and as a research assistant in the cataloging of the legacy of the medical historian and theorist Richard Koch . As a research assistant at the Chair of Ethics in Science at the University of Tübingen, he completed his habilitation in 2008 with the work Ambivalence of Freedom - Suicidal Thinking in the 20th Century .

As a Fedor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Bormuth taught and researched at City University New York (USA) and from 2010 to 2012 as a Heisenberg fellow at the University of Tübingen. In 2011, Bormuth was Adjunct Professor for European Intellectual History at Columbia University in New York (USA).

Bormuth has held a Heisenberg professorship for the history of comparative ideas at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2012 and has been head of the Karl-Jaspers-Haus since 2013. He is the chairman of the Karl Jaspers Society .

Scholarships and Awards

  • 1994: Marbach scholarship holder at the German Literature Archive
  • 2002: PhD award from the University of Tübingen
  • 2002: Main prize of the Stehr-Boldt-Fonds of the University of Zurich
  • 2010: Nietzsche Fellowship, Friedrich Nietzsche College, Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Publications

Monographs

  • Lifestyle in the modern age. Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis. Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2002, 2nd edition 2018.
  • Notes on Gottfried Benn. A "Bard of National Socialism"? Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2005.
  • Mimesis and The Christian Gentleman. Erich Auerbach and Karl Löwith. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2006.
  • Lifeconduct in Modern Times. Karl Jaspers and Psychoanalysis. New York and Berlin: Springer, 2006.
  • Psychiatry as a passion. Hans Heimann in memory. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2007.
  • Ambivalence of freedom. Suicidal Thinking in the 20th Century. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008.
  • With a handful of sand. Ingeborg Bachmann as a philosopher. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2010.
  • Sketch of an accident victim. Ulrike Meinhof in her time. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2018.
  • Karl Jaspers. Philosophy as a way of life. Warmbronn: Karl Alber, 2018.
  • The variety of spiritual experience. Reflections on the history of ideas. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018.
  • The casualties. Bachmann, Johnson, Meinhof, Améry. Berlin: Berenberg, 2019.
  • Careers. History of ideas in conversations. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
  • Erich Auerbach. Cultural philosopher in exile. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020.

Editions

  • Criticism out of passion. Studies on Jean Améry. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Susan Nurmi-Schomers, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2005.
  • Marburg hermeneutics between tradition and crisis. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Ulrich von Bülow, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008.
  • "Truth is what connects us". Karl Jaspers' art of philosophizing. Edited by Reinhard Schulz, Giandomenico Bonanni and Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009.
  • Walter Kappacher: Marilyn Monroe reads Ulysses. Notes, found objects and thirteen photographs. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2010.
  • Psychiatric Anthropology. On the topicality of Hans Heimann. Edited by Matthias Bormuth and Frank Schneider, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013.
  • Open horizon. Yearbook of the Karl Jaspers Society. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, since 2014.
  • Karl Jaspers: Correspondence. Psychiatry - medicine - natural science. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth and Dietrich von Engelhardt, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016.
  • Hannah Arendt: Socrates. Apology of plurality. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2016.
  • Erich Auerbach: Real reality. Erich Auerbach in a series of letters. Selected, introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2016.
  • Martin Warnke: Shake the Vasari ... Art history profiles. Edited and provided with a foreword by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017.
  • Eduard Beaucamp: In the mirror of history. The Leipzig School of Painting. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Richard Hüttel and Michael Triegel, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017.
  • Max Weber: Science as a Profession. Edited with contemporary feedback and a conversation with Dieter Henrich and introduced by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2017.
  • Erich Auerbach: The scar of Odysseus. Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Berenberg, 2017.
  • Michael Krüger: There is another world. Michael Krüger in conversation. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2017.
  • Erdmut Wizisla: Something to do with books. Interview with Erdmut Wizisla. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2018.
  • Erich Auerbach: Collected essays on Romance philology. 2nd edition supplemented with new articles, edited and provided with an afterword and primary bibliography by Matthias Bormuth and Martin Vialon, Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018.
  • Hannah Arendt: Friendship in dark times. Thoughts on Lessing. With essays by Mary McCarthy , Alfred Kazin and Jerome Kohn, edited by Matthias Bormuth, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2018.
  • Ulrich Keicher: The street is not my territory. Ulrich Keicher in conversation. Edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2019.
  • Peter Hamm: The nags of memory. With an obituary by Michael Krüger . Introduced and edited by Matthias Bormuth, Warmbronn: Keicher, 2019.
  • Karl Jaspers: Life as a Borderline Situation. A biography in letters. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.
  • Martin Warnke: artist legends. Critical views. Published by Matthias Bormuth, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Matthias Bormuth , frommann-holzboog.de, accessed on August 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Biographical data , uol.de, accessed on 15 December of 2019.
  3. ↑ Board of Directors , karl-jaspers-gesellschaft.de, accessed on December 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bormuth, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical ethicist and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Arolsen