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H i N

Alexander von
HUMBOLDT im NETZ

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HiN                                                      III, 4 (2002)
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International Review for Humboldtian Studies
Revista Internacional de Estudios Humboldtianos
Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien

 

Ottmar Ette (Potsdam)

»... daß einem leid tut, wie er aufgehört hat, deutsch zu sein«

Alexander von Humboldt, Preußen und Amerika

 

Abstracts

Within the context of the recent "Prussia Tricentennial 2001", this paper encourages a different view of Prussia by offering a new look on the writings and activities of one of its most famous citizens, Alexander von Humboldt. Starting with the traditional (and problematic) image of Prussia focussed on the Hohenzollern and, above all, Friedrich II, it highlights the problems between Prussian and German historiography on one side, and the author of "Cosmos" and his world-wide prestige on the other. Interestingly enough, the tensions or misunderstandings between Alexander and his home country can be dated back to the Humboldt family, i.e. to Wilhelm from Humboldt who noted, in a letter to his wife, how his brother had "stopped to be German". Alexander von Humboldt's cosmopolitanism and the characteristic development of his scientific conceptions, building a globalized and globalizing praxis based upon a scientific network and continous comparisons in global scale, allow us to discover new dimensions in Humboldtian science and thinking as well as promising perspectives for understanding Alexander von Humboldt's role and significance for transdisciplinary science today -and a different view of Prussia and cultural identity in Europe beyond the well-known stereotypes

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Inhalt

  1. Preußen als Problem
  2. Humboldt als Problem
  3. Der Staatsbürger als Weltbürger
  4. Was Preußen und Indianer verbindet
  5. Der Weltbürger als Staatsbürger

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Über den Autor

1956 im Schwarzwald geboren.
Seit Oktober 1995 Lehrstuhl für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Potsdam. 1990 Promotion an der Universität Freiburg i.Br. 1995 Habilitation an der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt.

Mehrfach Gastdozenturen in Toluca (UAEM), Mexico-Stadt (UAM Iztapalapa, UNAM - Colegio de México) sowie in Maine, USA.

Buchpublikationen u.a.:

  • A.v.Humboldt: Reise in die Äquinoktial-Gegenden (Hg., 2 Bde. Insel 1991)
    Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis

  • José Martí (Niemeyer 1991, Übers. México: UNAM 1995)
    Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Preis für Romanische Literaturwissenschaft der Unviersität Freiburg

  • Roland Barthes (Suhrkamp 1998)
    Hugo Friedrich und Erich Köhler-Forschungspreis

  • Literatur in Bewegung (Velbrück Wissenschaft 2001).

  • Weltbewusstsein. Alexander von Humboldt und das unvollendete Projekt einer anderen Moderne (Velbrück Wissenschaft 2002).

Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift Iberoamericana.

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Concerning the author

Born in the Black Forest (Germany) in 1956, Ottmar Ette is Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam, Brandenburg since 1995. He studied in Freiburg (Black Forest) and Madrid (Spain), wrote his dissertation on José Marti in 1990 at the University of Freiburg and his Habilitation on Roland Barthes in 1995 at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Bavaria.

He received the «Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz» Award in 1987 from the German Ministry of Culture and the German Research Association for his new edition of Alexander von Humboldt's Reise in die Äquinoktial-Gegenden des Neuen Kontinents (Personal Narrative, 2 vols., Frankfurt/Main - Leipizig: Insel Verlag 1991). In 1991, he received the «Young Scholars Award for Romance Literature» from the University of Freiburg, Germany, for his book on José Marti (German: Tübingen: Niemeyer 1991; Spanish: Mexico: UNAM 1995). In 2001, he received the «Hugo-Friedrich/Erich Köhler» Award from the University of Freiburg in cooperation with the universities of Basel, Mulhouse and Strasbourg for his book on Roland Barthes. In the same year, he published Litteratur in Bewegung («Literature in the Move», 2001). His latest book is Weltbewusstsein («World Consciousness», 2002). He is co-editor of the review Iberoamericana (Frankfurt/Main - Madrid).

 

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