Maximilian Bergengruen

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Maximilian Bergengruen (* 1971 ) is a German literary and cultural scientist. He works as a professor for modern German literature at the University of Karlsruhe / KIT .

Life

Werner Bergengruen's grandson graduated from high school in Hohenbaden Baden-Baden in 1990 . From 1991 to 1997 he studied modern German literature , philosophy , history and theater studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Marburg . Then he was a fellow in Giessen Graduate College Classicism and Romanticism and was there in 2000 with a thesis on aesthetic dynamic of anthropology at Jean Paul doctorate . From 2000 to 2007, Bergengruen held the position of research assistant at the German Department of the University of Basel . Here, in 2005, he completed his habilitation in modern German and general literature. In 2007, Bergengruen received the Heisenberg grant from the DFG , which was followed in 2008 by a position at the German Department of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

After being offered a full professorship at the University of Geneva in 2009, he switched to a corresponding position at the University of Karlsruhe / KIT in the 2014 summer semester. His research interests are in the history of literature from the 16th to the 20th centuries, especially the relationship between literature and knowledge, literature and law, as well as the literary and cultural theoretical reflection of this relationship.

Works (selection)

  • Paranoia and Heredity . Metaphysical medicine with Goethe, Tieck and ETA Hoffmann, Göttingen 2018
  • Mysticism of the nerves. Hugo von Hofmannsthal's literary epistemology of the no-longer-me. Freiburg 2010
  • Imitation of Christ / imitation of nature. Heavenly and natural magic in Paracelsus , in Paracelsism and in baroque literature (Scheffler, Zesen, Grimmelshausen). Hamburg 2007
  • Beautiful souls, grotesque bodies. Jean Paul's aesthetic dynamization of anthropology. Hamburg 2003
  • together with G. Haut, S. Langer (ed.): Types of killing and investigative practices. On the literary and forensic knowledge of murder and detection, ed. by MB, Gideon Haut, Stephanie Langer, Freiburg i. Br. Et al. 2015
  • together with Ch. Weder (ed.): Luxus. The ambivalence of the superfluous in modernity , Göttingen 2011
  • together with K. Müller-Wille, C. Pross (eds.): Neurasthenie. The disease of modernity and modern literature. Freiburg i. Br. 2010
  • together with R. Borgards (ed.): Ban of violence. Studies on the history of literature and knowledge. Göttingen 2009

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bergengruen, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971