Ulrich Joost

Ulrich Joost (born September 12, 1951 in Duderstadt ) is a German specialist in German. He emerged in particular as the editor of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's letter work and through publications on Lichtenberg's extensive private notebooks, the Sudel books .

Life

Joost studied German and history in Göttingen and passed the state examination in 1975. After an apprenticeship in bookbinding with a journeyman's examination (1976), he worked as a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Technical University of Darmstadt . With the dissertation Lichtenberg - the letter writer he received his doctorate in 1988 with Albrecht Schöne . The habilitation thesis from 1996 read "As if I had to translate it to myself" - Critical edition studies on German two-scripts . Since 2003 he has been an adjunct professor for modern German literary history and general literary studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

Joost is the editor of the Lichtenberg Yearbook of the Lichtenberg Society, succeeding Wolfgang Promies .

Publications

• Lichtenberg: Correspondence (ed.). 5 volumes, Verlag CH Beck , Munich 1983-2004, ISBN 978-3-406-53155-2 .
  • Correspondence: Volumes 1–4 (Ed. With Albrecht Schöne ), Munich 1983–1992.
  • Register: Volumes 5/1 and 5/2 (Ed., With assistance from Hans-Joachim Heerde), Munich 2004.
• The correspondence between Johann Christian Dieterich and Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg (ed.). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1984, ISBN 978-3-525-82429-0 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Philological-historical class, volume 3, no. 146).
• My charming money man . Gottfried August Bürger's correspondence with his publisher Dieterich (ed.). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-89244-002-4 .
• Lichtenberg's world of books . A book lover and user of the Göttingen library. Catalog of the exhibition in the foyer of the Lower Saxony State and University Library (edited, with Wiard Hinrichs). Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 1989, ISBN 978-3-89244-012-3 (=  Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 3).
• These are of course shadow games . A Lichtenberg topography in pictures (edited, with Horst Gravenkamp). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-89244-014-7 (=  Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 6).
• Lichtenberg's external appearance . A critical iconography (with Bernd Achenbach). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-89244-009-3 (=  Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 1).
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . 1742-1799. Risk of enlightenment. Exhibition catalog (conception). Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich, Vienna 1992, ISBN 978-3-446-17040-7
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Noctes . A notebook. Facsimile with an afterword and explanations (ed.). Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-89244-054-3 .
• Lichtenberg - the letter writer . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 978-3-89244-011-6 (=  Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 5; Dissertation University of Göttingen 1988).
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: "Avertissement" against Jacob Philadelphia 1777 . Introduction and Notes (Ed.). Darmstadt 2004 (annual edition of the Lichtenberg Society; not available in stores).
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms and other problems (ed.). Reclam-Verlag , Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020213-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Joost in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ulrich Joost in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Entry on Ulrich Joost in the Germanist directory.
• Lichtenberg yearbook DNB ISSN  0936-4242
• Lichtenberg studies DNB

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two scripts see Antiqua-Fraktur-Streit