Lichtenberg-Kolleg

Hello colleagues—Kolleagues?—and whoever else who has happened to find this post. It’s an odd time to be writing about research—something that has most certainly taken a back seat in these stressful and […]

I recently discovered a hitherto unknown letter by the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to a certain Isaac Ironside (1808–70), dated 10 July 1855. Ironside was a leading radical, […]

Since the beginning of the corona crisis, my time in home-office has mostly been spent completing two articles that are related to my on-going research project Governing Religious Diversity in a (Post)Secular […]

My research focuses on the concept of Caesarism. Linguistically speaking, Caesarism is a neologism closely connected to the political situation of mid-nineteenth-century France. In the words of the conservative pamphleteer Auguste Romieu […]

My research project as a Moritz Stern Fellow in Modern Jewish Studies at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg investigates the figure and scholarship of Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960), a pioneering although neglected scholar of Jewish Studies. […]

The main mission of institutes for advanced study is to enable scholars to pursue curiosity-driven research that other, more conventional, academic institutions refrain from accommodating. Hence, as soon as I joined the […]

The project I hope to complete during my annual summer fellowship concerns the Panza Collection Initiative at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Between 1991 and 1992, the museum acquired […]

I am currently at work at two research projects, both of which are related to my overall project at the Kolleg, which is to turn my dissertation into a book manuscript. The […]