Michael Werner (historian)
Michael Werner (born May 24, 1946 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a French historian and Germanist.
Life
After studying German, Romance languages and history in Freiburg, Munich and Bonn, he moved to Paris in 1969 and has been French since 1977. There he started a research position at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in 1970 . In 1991 he became professor for the social history of Franco-German cultural relations at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), where he has since headed the Center de recherches interdisciplinaires sur l'Allemagne.
Together with Michel Espagne , Werner developed the research field on cultural transfer based on the Franco-German example in the mid-1980s , with the help of which a more precise version of the transnational history of relationships should be possible. In 2002, in collaboration with Bénédicte Zimmermann, he presented the draft method of the Histoire croisée ("crossed history", history of interweaving and linking). The Histoire croisée is an approach of multi-perspective and relational historiography that takes up suggestions from the international social science discussion. He is co-editor of the War in History series .
Werner's empirical work has dealt with German emigration in France (including Heinrich Heine , Walter Benjamin ), the history of the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the circulation of cultural practices in music.
Fonts (selection)
- with Heinrich Hubert Houben : Encounters with Heine . Hoffmann and Campe, 1973
- Genius and money bag . Hoffmann and Campe, 1978
- with Walter Grab , Julius Hans Schoeps : Jews in the Vormärz and in the Revolution of 1848 . 1983
- with Jan-Christoph Hauschild : "The purpose of life is life itself". Heinrich Heine. A biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1997 (updated new edition 2005 by Zweiausendeins), ISBN 978-3-86150-739-0 .
- with Jan-Christoph Hauschild: Heinrich Heine . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 2007 (3rd edition) ISBN 978-3-423-31058-1
- with Bénédicte Zimmermann: "De la comparaison à l'histoire croisée". Seuil 2004
- Usages et politiques des langues en Europe . Editions Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2007
literature
- Rudolf von Thadden , Steffen Kaudelka: Memory and history: 60 years after May 8, 1945 . Wallstein Verlag 2006, ISBN 3835300490 , p. 160 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Werner , curriculum vitae and detailed bibliography until 2003 at Collegium Budapest
- Website of the CRIA at EHESS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian and Germanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |