Uffa Jensen

Uffa Jensen (* 1969 in Husby , Flensburg-Land district ) is a German historian .

Life

Uffa Jensen studied history and philosophy in Kiel , Jerusalem , at the Technical University of Berlin and Columbia University in New York. In 2003 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin under Reinhard Rürup and Werner Bergmann . His dissertation on the relationship between bourgeois Jews and Protestants in the 19th century was rated “summa cum laude” and was published in 2005 under the title “Educated doppelgangers. Bourgeois Jews and Protestants in the 19th Century ”.

In 2003 Jensen worked as a research assistant at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen at the chair of Bernd Weisbrod , and then from 2003 to 2007 he taught and researched as a DAAD specialist lecturer at the University of Sussex in Great Britain. He then returned to the University of Göttingen in 2008–2010, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School “Generational History”. During this time he published on German-Jewish history, the history of anti-Semitism and the history of generations. From 2010–2017 he worked as a research assistant in the “History of Emotions” department, which Ute Frevert heads at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin . There he wrote a habilitation thesis on the transnational history of psychoanalysis in Berlin, London and Calcutta, with which he received his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin at the end of 2016 . In 2018 he received a Heisenberg research professorship from the German Research Foundation at the TU Berlin.

Jensen regularly comments on current political issues, for example in From Politics and Current Affairs , Time , the Left Young World or the bourgeois Tagesspiegel .

Fonts (selection)

• Educated doppelgangers. Jews and non-Jews in the bourgeois educational culture Berlin, 1848–1890 (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 167). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35148-8 (also: Dissertation, TU Berlin 2003).
• as editor with Alexander CT Geppert and Jörn Weinhold: local calls. Space and communication in the 19th and 20th centuries (= time, meaning, culture ). Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-312-7 .
• as editor with Daniel Morat : Rationalizations of Feeling. On the relationship between science and emotionality 1880–1930 . Fink / Schöningh, Munich / Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4679-4 .
• as editor with Habbo Knoch , Daniel Morat and Miriam Rürup : Violence and Society. Classics of modern thought reread. Bernd Weisbrod on his 65th birthday . Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 3-8353-0901-3 .
• as editor with Maik Tellers: The Self between Adjustment and Liberation. Psychological knowledge and politics in the 20th century (= publications of the contemporary history working group Lower Saxony . Volume 27). Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 3-8353-0964-1 .
• as editor with Hartmut Berghoff , Christina Lubinski and Bernd Weisbrod: History by Generations. Generational Dynamics in Modern History (= Göttingen Studies on Generational Research. Publications of the DFG Graduate School "Generational History " . Volume 11). Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1162-6 .
• Politics and Law (= Perspectives on German-Jewish History ). Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77786-7 .
• Anger politics (= Edition Suhrkamp . Volume 2720). Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-12720-9 .
• How the couch came to Calcutta. A Global History of Early Psychoanalysis . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 3-518-42865-9 (also: habilitation thesis, FU Berlin 2016).

Web links

• Website of Uffa Jensen at the TU Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mockery of the Jews unbearable . In: Junge Welt , February 8, 2020, p. 2.