Fritz Breithaupt (born 1967) is a scholar and critic in the fields of German literature, intellectual history, and cognitive science. Currently, he is chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Fritz Breithaupt (born 1967) is a scholar and critic in the fields of German literature, intellectual history, and cognitive science. Currently, he is chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Fritz Breithaupt graduated from the Universität Hamburg in 1991, and received both an MA (1993) and PhD (1997) in Germanic Studies from Johns Hopkins University. He has been teaching at Indiana University, Bloomington since 1996, since 2010 as a full professor of Germanic Studies, an adjunct professor of Comparative Literature, and an affiliate professor of Cognitive Science. He co-founded the European Union Center at Indiana University in 2005 and served as its co-director until 2007. [1] In Germany, he is most well known outside of academic circles as a columnist for ZEIT Campus magazine and the author of the recurring feature "Frag den Prof" ("Ask the professor"). [2] His academic research focuses on German literary history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on such authors as Goethe, Lessing, Kleist, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Celan. In particular, his work on Goethe's novel Elective Affinities has been compared to Walter Benjamin's. [3] In 2009–10, he was the distinguished Remak Scholar of Indiana University. He has twice (in 2003 and 2009) won the grant of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, which is "granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future." [4] His 2017 book on the dark sides of empathy offers an analysis of Donald Trump's technique to draw empathy to himself. The book appeared on the German bestseller list in February 2017(Spiegel-Bestseller Liste).
Jenseits der Bilder: Goethes Politik der Wahrnehmung, 2000 ( ISBN 3793092283)
Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes: Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur, 2008 ( ISBN 3596180597)
Kulturen der Empathie, 2009 ( ISBN 3518295063)
Culturas de la Empatía, 2011 ( ISBN 8492946369)
Kultur der Ausrede, 2012 ( ISBN 3518296019)
Die dunklen Seiten der Empathie, 2017 ( ISBN 3518297961)
Empathie und Erzählung (with Claudia Breger), 2010 ( ISBN 3793096203)
Narrative Empathy (with Claudia Breger): special issue of Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, September 2008
Goethe and the Ego, special section of Goethe Yearbook XI, 2002
Goethe and Wittgenstein: Seeing the Worlds Unity in its Variety (with Richard Raatzsch and Bettina Kremberg), Wittgenstein Studies 5, 2002
"A Three-Person Model of Empathy” in: Emotion Review 4, 2012
“Von Gott gerufen werden: Narration und Ausrede,” in Stefan Börnchen, Georg Mein, Martin Roussel, Eds., Namen, Ding, Referenzen, 2012
“The Birth of Narrative from the Spirit of the Excuse. A Speculation,” in: Poetics Today 32, 2011
“How is Empathy Possible? Four Models,” forthcoming in: Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert, Jennifer Marston William, Eds., Theory of Mind and Literature
“How I feel your Pain: Lessing’s Mitleid, Goethe’s Anagnorisis, Fontane’s Quiet Perversion,” in: Deutsche Vierteljahrschrift, 2008
“The Invention of Trauma in German Romanticism,” in: Critical Inquiry, 2005
“The Culture of Images: Goethe’s Elective Affinities,” in: Monatshefte 92.3, 2000
Fritz Richard Stern was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused on the complex relationships between Germans and Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries and on the rise of National Socialism in Germany during the first half of the 20th century.
Fritz Mauthner was an Austrian philosopher and author of novels, satires, reviews and journalistic works. He was an exponent of philosophical scepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge and of philosophy of language.
German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German history, and German politics in addition to the language and literature component. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. In English, the terms Germanistics or Germanics are sometimes used, but the subject is more often referred to as German studies, German language and literature, or German philology.
Jeremy Adler is a British scholar and poet, and emeritus professor and senior research fellow at King's College London. As a poet he is known especially for his concrete poetry and artist's books. As an academic he is known for his work on German literature specialising in the Age of Goethe, Romanticism, Expressionism and Modernism with contributions on figures such as Goethe, Hölderlin, and Kafka.
David E. Wellbery is an American professor of German Studies at the University of Chicago. As of 2022 he is the chair of the department of Germanic Studies and holds the LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professorship in the department. In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Baroness Stefanie Anna Hildegard von Schnurbein is a German literary scholar, and Professor of Modern Scandinavian Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Gustav Neckel was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Manfred Osten is a German poet, author, lawyer, former diplomat and cultural historian.
F. W. Bernstein was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon. After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical magazine Titanic.
Karl Krolow was a German poet and translator. In 1956 he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. He was born in Hanover, Germany, and died in Darmstadt, Germany.
Elisebeth Leinfellner was professor in linguistics at the University of Vienna, Department of Linguistics. She moved to the United States in 1967, and taught at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is notable for her contributions to linguistics and philosophy. She received the Austrian Grand Decoration of Honour for services to the province of Lower Austria for Science and Art. She co-founded the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and International Wittgenstein Symposium.
Fritz Joachim Raddatz was a German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer, journalist and romancier.
Liselotte Richter was a German philosopher and theologian. She was the first female professor of philosophy in Germany.
Sybille Steinbacher is a German historian. Since May 2017 she has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Fritz Strich was a Swiss-German literature historian.
Stefan Koldehoff is a German journalist, art market expert and non-fiction author. He became known through numerous publications and his work as culture editor of the Deutschlandfunk.
August Ferdinand Robert Petsch was a German researcher of Germanic culture and folklore.
Jannis Panagiotidis is a German historian specializing in Migration Studies and the history of Russia Germans. Since August 2020, he is the Scientific Director at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna.
Fawzi Boubia, born in 1948 in Khemisset, is a Moroccan intellectual.
Liliane Weissberg is an American literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in German-Jewish studies and German and American literature. She is currently the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She received, among others, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Humboldt Research Award for her research on German-Jewish literature and culture and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, and holds an honorary degree from the University of Graz.