Sylvain Gouguenheim

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Sylvain Gouguenheim (born August 6, 1960 ) is a French professor of medieval studies at the École normal supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines (ENS LSH de Lyon) in Lyon , historian and author.

Life

Gouguenheim received his PhD from the University of Paris X in Nanterre , then taught at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) before becoming a professor at the ENS LSH in Lyon. After his doctorate on the subject of Hildegard von Bingen , he studied the religious military orders that arose in connection with the crusades in the Middle Ages . He published various works about the Teutonic Order , one of which was his habilitation thesis . Since September 2010 he has been the only French member of the International Historical Commission for Research on the Teutonic Order .

Publication controversy: Aristotle on Mont Saint-Michel

In 2008 the Paris publisher Éditions du Seuil published the book Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel in its series L'univers historique . Les racines grecques de l'Europe chrétienne . It completely contradicts the opinion generally held up to then that the Islamic world played an important role in imparting ancient Greek knowledge of philosophy, medicine and other sciences to the world of the West . For the author, the Arabic language and the thinking of Islam are not suitable for promoting rational thinking.

The positive criticism of this work, especially by Roger-Pol Droit in Le Monde and others, caused an outcry among medieval historians. It was pointed out that Gouguenheim's theses were very close to those of Jacques Heers and applied the ideas of Rémi Brague to the field of philosophy . Few French scientists like Claude Gauvard supported Gouguenheim.

There were also neutral votes on Gouguenheim's book. However, many scholars, including those from the Islamic world who were doing research with Gouguenheim at the same time at the same institute in Lyon, the CIHAM, questioned his theses. In Germany in 2008, the philosophy historian and Arabist Dag Nikolaus Hasse from Würzburg turned against this publication. In the FAZ of June 19, 2008, he called it a dubious book, saturated with ideology, covered with the deceptive varnish of erudition , the manifesto of cultural racism . On the occasion of the publication of a German version of the book in 2011 by the Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt, the same newspaper repeated the allegations and cited historians and Islamic scholars who accuse the author of violating elementary rules of professional honesty .

Publications

  • with Pierre Monnet and Joseph Morsel: L'Allemagne au XIIIe siècle: de la Meuse à l'Oder . Éditions Picard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-7084-0471-7 .
  • with Jean-Patrice Boudet and Catherine Vincent: L'Europe occidentale chrétienne au XIIIe siècle: études et documents commentés , with a foreword by Michel Parisse . Editions SEDES, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7181-9210-0 .
  • La Sybille du Rhin: Hildegarde de Bingen, abbesse et prophétesse rhénane . Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-85944-297-9 .
  • Les fausses terreurs de l'an mil: attente de la fin des temps ou approfondissement de la foi? Éditions Picard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7084-0566-7 .
  • Les Chevaliers teutoniques . Éditions Tallandier, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-84734-220-8 .
  • Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel. Les racines grecques de l'Europe chrétienne . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-02-096541-5 .
    • German by Jochen Grube: Aristoteles on Mont Saint-Michel. The Greek roots of the Christian West . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23221-5 .
  • Regards sur le Moyen age: 40 histoires médiévales . Éditions Tallandier, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-84734-604-6 .
  • La réforme grégorienne. De la lutte pour le sacré à la secularisation du monde . Éditions Temps Présent, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-916842-04-2 .
  • Tannenberg, July 15, 1410 . Tallandier, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-84734-972-6 .
  • Frédéric II, un empereur de legends . Perrin, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-262-04982-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelle Mazel: Aristote au Mont Saint Michel by Sylvain Gougenheim
  2. ↑ Thomas Ricklin: The Gouguenheim case , in: Historische Zeitschrift 290 (2010), pp. 119–135.
  3. ↑ Maculation by commenting. In: FAZ . November 18, 2011, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Jan-Hendryk de Boer: Collective review: Influence of the Arab sciences in the European Middle Ages, H-Soz-Kult, September 28, 2011, (online) .

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personal data
SURNAME Gouguenheim, Sylvain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medieval historian, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1960