Nikolaus Wegmann

Nikolaus Wegmann (* 1954 ) is a German germanistischer literary scholar . He teaches in the Department of German at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) .

Life

Nikolaus Wegmann studied linguistics, literary studies and philosophy in Bielefeld from 1973 to 1980 , where he passed the first state examination in philology. In 1982 he was employed as a research assistant at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) . In 1984 he received his doctorate, which was followed by a position as a research assistant in a DFG research project on the history of science . From 1988 he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Cologne , where he completed his habilitation in 1998 and was appointed adjunct professor for modern German literature in 2004. After substituting professorships in Cologne and Potsdam , he was appointed to the Princeton University Professorship in 2006 . He has been Chair of the Department of German there since 2012 .

Nikolaus Wegmann is Vice President of the Friedrich Schlegel Society and co-editor of the Athenaeum yearbook .

research

Nikolaus Wegmann's historical research focuses on the literary and cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially the literary epoch of sensitivity - which he analyzed in his treatise Discourses of Sensitivity under the headings “discourse” and “mediumship” - as well as the German romance .

Based on his research on the history of science in German studies, Wegmann, as a literary theorist, contributes fundamental considerations to the theory and practice of philology . This includes work on reading techniques, for example on different reading speeds. This also includes works on literary authority , engagement and deconstruction , but also on the terms of the literary source , the literary seminar or the so-called good book and the literary canon . In his book Searching and Finding in the Alexandrian Age , Wegmann developed a literary and media studies theory of the library .

Fonts (selection)

• Discourses of Sensitivity. On the history of a feeling in 18th century literature. Metzler, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-476-00637-9 .
• Book labyrinths. Searching and Finding in the Alexandrian Age. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-412-15499-7 .
• "Source". Between the origin and the construct. A key concept in the discussion. Edited together with Thomas Rathmann. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2004 (=  supplements to the journal for German philology  12), ISBN 3-503-07920-3 .
• Original / sound. On the media history of the O-Tons. With audio examples on CD. Edited together with Harun Maye, Cornelius Reiber. UVK, Konstanz 2007, ISBN 978-3-89669-446-1 .
• Figures of conversion. Friedrich Schlegel's conversion to Catholicism in context. Edited together with Winfried Eckel . Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77130-8 .
• Historical dictionary of media use. Edited together with Heiko Christians, Matthias Bickenbach. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22152-2 .

Web links

• Literature by Nikolaus Wegmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nikolaus Wegmann at perlentaucher.de
• Princeton University Personal Page .
• Nikolaus Wegmann talks with Andrew Piper - Interacting with Print: Cultural practices of intermediality, 1700–1900 (interview from 2011 on Interactingwithprint.org).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Vita Nikolaus Wegmann (* 1954). In: Ways of Enlightenment in Germany. The research history of sensitivity and Jacobinism between 1965 and 1990 in expert interviews. Introduced, edited, commented and edited. by Michael Schlott. Hirzel, Stuttgart – Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-7776-2289-7 , p. 402.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} C. V. Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wegmann ( Memento of the original from May 19, 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. (PDF; 90 kB). 
3. ^ Website of the Friedrich Schlegel Society ; Athenaeum website .
4. ↑ Walter Erhart: After the Enlightenment Research? In: Enlightenment research in Germany. Edited by Holger Dainat, Wilhelm Vosskamp . Winter, Heidelberg 1999 (=  supplements to the Euphorion. Issue 32), ISBN 3-8253-0839-1 , pp. 99–128 (p. 114).
5. ↑ cf. a. Nikolaus Wegmann: What does reading a 'classical text' mean? Philological self-reflection between science and education. In: History of Science in German Studies in the 19th Century. Edited by Jürgen Fohrmann , Wilhelm Voßkamp. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-476-00990-4 , pp. 334-450.
6. ↑ Cf. Detlev Kopp, Nikolaus Wegmann: “Few people still know how readers read.” Comments on the subject: Reading and speed. In: German Studies and German Lessons in the Age of Technology. Self-determination and adaptation. Lectures at the Germanistentag Berlin 1987. Edited by Norbert Oellers . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-10592-5 , Vol. 1, pp. 92-104; Nikolaus Wegmann: Abstract: Quick or slow? A Media-philological Case Study (2011) ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 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. . 
7. ^ Nikolaus Wegmann: Publications (Selected) (Princeton University website) .