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Verunsicherung – Emotions of Uncertainty and Insecurity in the 18th Century

Förderpreis junge Aufklärungsforschung 2024 at IZEA – conference organized by Dr. Claudia Garcia-Minguillan and Dr. Teresa Mocharitsch (both Graz) The Age of Enlightenment is often known as an age of reason. Among the arguments about how and why this assumption is inaccurate, ideas related to sentiments and emotions act as a complement to a full […]
Portrait Barthelemy d'Herbelot

A turning point in Oriental studies: Barthélemy d’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale

The German edition of Barthélemy d’Herbelot’s Bibliothèque orientale and the circulation of knowledge in the Enlightenment by Despina Magkanari (Halle) Barthélemy d’Herbelot (1625-1695) was a French Orientalist scholar who served as a secretary-interpreter of Oriental languages at the Bibliothèque du roi, royal censor, and Professor of Syriac at the Collège du roi. Over more than […]
J. J. Winckelmann: Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten, Leipzig 1762 (Lyon copy), title page Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon | Numelyo, 400085
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A rediscovered manuscript: J. J. Winckelmanns “Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten” (1762)

“and now I like this little work almost more than anything else I’ve done” – – the rediscovered manuscript for the second, never published edition of J. J. Winckelmanns “Anmerkungen über die Baukunst der Alten” (1762) by Martin Dönike As the author of the Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (History of the Art of Antiquity) […]
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Linked Open Data and Literary History

In a “Data-Rich Literary History” (Bode 2018a: 37), one can quantify literary phenomena like patterns in themes, narrative places, book formats, narrative forms, gender and more. Researchers in the field of Digital Humanities such as Franco Moretti (2013), Matthew Jockers (2013), Matt Erlin (2014), Katherine Bode (2018b), Ted Underwood 2019 or Nicholas Paige (2020) are […]
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Students ‘disciplining’ the cameral sciences

In late 1794, the then twenty-year-old former cameralism student Ferdinand Beneke criticized the expectations placed onto students regarding their choice of study. In his extensive diary he explains that he regrets the decision he made when he was fifteen to study both law and cameralism instead of just cameralism. He made this decision because he wished […]
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Sophie von La Roche: Appearances at Lake Oneida

The German author Sophie von La Roche (1730-1807) was an exceptional woman: a writer and a polymath, who landed a bestseller with her first epistolary novel History of Lady Sophia Sternheim (1771) at a time when female writers were an absolute rarity. Her creativity proved indefatigable: after publishing a plethora of diverse texts ranging from […]
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Project of the Month: Solipsism and Autonomy in the German Enlightenment

Each month, we aim to feature a current research topic by a doctoral student or Early Career Researcher. This month, Ingrid Schreiber (Oxford, Wadham College) talks about the tension between intellectual self-sufficiency and the need to test ideas in an intellectual community in the work of Kant and the Königsberg circle.   Human beings, argued philosopher […]
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Aufklärungsforschung am IZEA

Interdisziplinarität in Zeiten des Umbruchs Institutionell verankert an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, widmet sich das IZEA der interdisziplinären Aufklärungsforschung. Die Etablierung des Zentrums nahm ihren Anfang in der Vorwendezeit mit den Bemühungen von Paul Raabe, dem damaligen Direktor der Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, und Ulrich Ricken, Professor für Romanistik an der Universität Halle, eine gesamtdeutsche Forschungsstätte Europäische Aufklärung […]
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Project of the Month: The Genetic Definition in the 17th and 18th century

Each month, we aim to feature a current research topic by a doctoral student or Early Career Researcher. This month, Theodor Berwe (IZEA/University of Mainz) talks about tracing the historical development of the genetic definition as an ideal form of forming concepts.   Since antiquity and until the 19th century, geometry has been considered a paragon […]
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