Suzanne L. Marchand

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Suzanne L. Marchand (* 1961 ) is an American historian . She has dealt intensively with the German relationship with the Orient as well as the role of philhellenism in German-speaking countries.

Life

Marchand studied at the University of California, Berkeley , historians to Bachelor of Arts in 1984, received a Master of Arts in History from the University of Chicago in 1986 and his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) there in 1992. She was a lecturer at the University of Chicago , taught as Assistant Professor at Princeton University until 1998 and was Associate Professor from 1999 to 2008 , then (full) Professor of European and Intellectual History at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge . In 2013 she was raised to the rank of LSU Systems Boyd Professor.

Down from Olympus

The book, published in 1998, continues a thesis strongly advanced by Eliza Marian Butler in 1935 about the tyranny of ancient Greece over Germany. Butler already saw the renaissance in Germany arrived delayed and changed, there it would have been less about the rebirth of beauty in poetry, art and life, but more about religious truth and ideas of purification in the wake of the Reformation . The dominant role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann in the rediscovery of antiquity had been transferred to major German thinkers and philosophers and through them to authors and artists.

Marchand's study builds on this and looks less at individual authors than at the scientific and educational movements and institutions. On the basis of the elaboration and implementation of German educational ideals in archeology policy, for example in Prussia, Marchand describes the Germans' programmatically planned becoming Greek. This originally arbitrary setting also included parallels between the long failed German national movement and the Greek struggle for freedom. It led to the development of methods that soon made the originally postulated and admired classical Greek ideal of beauty appear, when viewed in detail, as a construction that could no longer be maintained.

The consideration also marginally includes the neoclassical aspects of National Socialist architecture and representative buildings, which just as clearly set themselves apart from the völkisch Germanentümelei. Marchand also deals with individual aspects and parallels between the role and the decisive decision in favor of philhellenism and individual aspects of anti-Semitism in Germany.

Orientalism

Edward Said's well-known criticism of orientalism as Eurocentric, condescending knowledge of domination in the context of the oriental studies of the British and French colonial powers had left out Germany and German research in the field as purely academic systematic.

Marchand shows the importance and the essential intellectual role of such research. She also distances herself from the general application of Michel Foucault's methods and the pair of opposites “Europe” and “Orient”. With “German Orientalism in the Age of Empire”, Marchand interprets the German scientific examination of the Orient as an independent attempt to come up with a new, alternative explanation of one's own spiritual and cultural (western) tradition. Accordingly, it was precisely the German orientalists who dared to take an early intercultural approach ante litteram and who incorporated their language studies and their knowledge of the Orient into a new construction of a history of Europe and humanity. The different spiritual anchoring in the Christian and classical tradition as well as different political affiliations also differed from the classical Greek-ancient model. Some German orientalists rejected Islam as a model precisely because it seemed too syncretistic to them and multicultural in today's language . With a wide range of findings, Marchand shows how German Oriental Studies, due to its preoccupation with Islam, fundamentally imagined its own and the world as a whole as the result of relationships, exchange processes and intercultural mixtures, thus establishing the intercultural paradigm and transfer history . Last but not least, it shows methods of research on orientalism, which are essentially the basis for the construction of today's post-imperialist worldview .

Honors and grants

  • 1989–90 Social Sciences Research Council, PhD scholarship
  • 1994–5 James Conant Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard
  • 1997 Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin
  • 2000–1 Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin
  • 2003 ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
  • 2005 Board of Regents Fellowship
  • 2010 American Historical Association Awards, American Historical Association George L. Mosse Prize Press Release
  • 2013–14 President, German Studies Association

She is on the editorial board of Modern Intellectual History magazine .

Works

Magazines

  • “Philhellenism and the Furor Orientalis,” in Modern Intellectual History 1, no. 3 (2004)
  • “Embarrassed by the Nineteenth Century,” in Bernard Cook et al., Eds., Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750–1850: Selected Papers, 2002 (Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 2004)
  • “From Liberalism to Neoromanticism: Albrecht Dieterich, Richard Reitzenstein and the Religious Turn in Fin de Siècle German Classical Studies,” in Out of Arcadia (British Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, 79, 2003), eds. Martin Ruehl and Ingo Gildenhard
  • "The Counter-Reformation in Austrian Ethnology," in Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire, eds. Glenn Penny and Matti Bunzl (Ann Arbor, 2003)
  • "The End of Egyptomania," in Wilfried Seipel, ed., Ägyptomanie: European imagination of Egypt from antiquity to today (Vienna, 2002)
  • “German Orientalism and the Decline of the West,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, December 2001

Books

  • Down from Olympus: Archeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970 (1996)
  • German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, race, and scholarship. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute; New York: Cambridge University Press 2009. XXXIV, 526 pp. ISBN 978-0-52151849-9 .
  • With David Lindenfeld (Ed.): Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics and Ideas (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2004)
  • With Elizabeth Lunbeck and Shelby Cullom (Eds.): Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (Brussels 1997)
  • Co-author in Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (2002)
  • Co-author in Germany at the Fin de Siècle (2004)

Web links

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  1. Suzanne Marchand. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
  2. Eliza Marian Butler , 1935 The Tyranny of Greece over Germany. A study of the influence exercised by Greek art and poetry over the Great German writers of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Cambridge 1935).
  3. Suzanne L. Marchand, Down from Olympus: Archeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970, review by James J. Sheehan The Journal of Modern History Vol. 70, No. 2 (June 1998), pp. 495-496
  4. Samples. Edward Said and the German-speaking Orientalism: A Critical Appreciation ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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; 60 kB) by Roman Loimeier, in the Vienna Journal for Critical African Studies, 2/2001, vol. 1 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.univie.ac.at
  5. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 145, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2001 German Orientalism and the Decline of the West SUZANNE MARCHAND Associate Professor of European Intellectual History Louisiana State University ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 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; 125 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amphilsoc.org
  6. [1] (PDF; 242 kB) Suzanne L. Marchand: German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, race, and scholarship. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute; New York: Cambridge University Press 2009. XXXIV, 526 pp. ISBN 978-0-52151849-9 . Review by Hartmut Walravens , Berlin
  7. En detail also in Suzanne L. Marchand, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Shelby Cullom (Eds.): Proof and Persuasion: Essays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (Brussels 1997)
  8. a b c d S. Marchand: German Orientalism in the Age of Empire, Latest History / Book Reviews, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship, review of Marchand at H-Soz-Kult by Sabine Mangold, Neuere und Neuste Geschichte, University of Wuppertal
  9. [2] (PDF; 148 kB) Suzanne Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York, 2009 Review by Rachel Muscat
  10. Modern Intellectual History: Editorial Board. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .