Dr. Safia Azzouni
Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow
Born 1969 in Berlin
Studied German and Romance Philology in Berlin
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Strategies of Popular-Scientific Writing in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
This project aims to analyse popular-scientific writings from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, focusing on texts in German and French by authors or journalists well known at the time who were either amateur scientists who had acquired their knowledge autodidactically outside universities or academically trained scientists who were unable to pursue a university career. This constellation raises the central question of possible interactions between literary and scientific practices of writing on the one hand and research in popular-scientific writing on the other hand. This as yet neglected, specific mode belonging to both scientific and creative writing is to be studied as a decisive means of not only transmitting but also generating knowledge in the modern age.
Born 1969 in Berlin
Studied German and Romance Philology in Berlin
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Strategies of Popular-Scientific Writing in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
This project aims to analyse popular-scientific writings from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, focusing on texts in German and French by authors or journalists well known at the time who were either amateur scientists who had acquired their knowledge autodidactically outside universities or academically trained scientists who were unable to pursue a university career. This constellation raises the central question of possible interactions between literary and scientific practices of writing on the one hand and research in popular-scientific writing on the other hand. This as yet neglected, specific mode belonging to both scientific and creative writing is to be studied as a decisive means of not only transmitting but also generating knowledge in the modern age.
21/05/13
Die Angst vor Vernichtung und der ewige Bund: Die Verortung des Estherbuches im Judentum und in jüdischer Theologie
3. Gustaf-Dalman-Lecture
