Sabine Doering-Manteuffel

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Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (born Künsting; born August 3, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German ethnologist and has been President of the University of Augsburg since October 1, 2011 .

life and work

After studying ethnology and folklore in Cologne and Bonn, which she completed with a doctorate at the University of Cologne in 1984 , she worked as a research assistant at the University of Bonn until 1989 . In 1987 she was a visiting scholar at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s , Canada . In 1988 she had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris . After completing her habilitation at the University of Mainz in 1993, she was given a chair in Augsburg in 1995 . In 1999 she was visiting professor at the Center for West European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh , USA. In 2003 she accepted a visiting professorship (Directrice d'Études associée) at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. From 2008 to 2011 she was dean of the Philological and Historical Faculty of the University of Augsburg. On June 8, 2011, she was elected President of the University of Augsburg.

Her book Das Occultte , published in 2008, was awarded the “Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Literature”. In it she considers the spread of the “ occult ”, which she equates with “unreasonableness”, from the Middle Ages to the present through media such as book printing and the Internet . In their opinion, Wikipedia is also a “forum for occult content”.

In a panel discussion organized by the FDP Bavaria in 2012 , Doering-Manteuffel spoke out in favor of tuition fees .

Sabine Doering-Manteuffel is married to the historian Anselm Doering-Manteuffel .

Fonts

  • Loyalty is my honour. Ethnological study of a Callas club in the Federal Republic (= mirror image. Volume 2). Spiegelbild, Cologne 1986, DNB 891095969 (Zugl .: Cologne, Univ., Diss., 1984).
  • The Eifel. Story of a landscape. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-593-35356-3 (habilitation).
  • The occult. A success story in the shadow of the Enlightenment. From Gutenberg to the World Wide Web. Siedler, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88680-888-5 .
  • Occultism. Secret doctrines, belief in spirits, magical practices. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61220-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus P. Prem, Press - Public Relations - Information, University of Augsburg: "Geisteswissenschaften International": Translation prize for "The Occult" by the Augsburg ethnologist Sabine Doering-Manteuffel. In: idw-online.de. Science information service . May 16, 2009, accessed December 14, 2018.
  2. ^ The Occult, pp. 288 f. Quoted from Bernhard Fresacher : The two natures of Christ - The God Man as a paradigm of distinction. In: Parallel Worlds. Christian religion and the multiplication of reality. Edited by Johann Ev. Hafner , Joachim Valentin. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-020565-9 , pp. 181–201, here: p. 190, note 26 ( preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ The Occult, p. 275.
  4. ↑ fdpbayern: Tuition fees in Bavaria - that's what the experts say on YouTube , November 6, 2012, accessed on August 17, 2020 (1:50 min.).
  5. ↑ (BPP): Transparent election program: FDP publicly discusses economic and infrastructure policy ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: bundespresseportal.de, October 19, 2012, accessed on December 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Doering-Manteuffel, Sabine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Künsting, Sabine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn