Ich habe mein Junior Fellowship am University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence 'Alexander von Humboldt' nun abgeschlossen. Angegliedert war ich dem Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte der Universitäten Bayreuth und Bamberg. Ich werde „mein Schloss“, den Arbeitsplatz des Instituts im beeindruckenden Schloss Thurnau, und die tolle Atmosphäre, die von den dort arbeitenden Menschen geschaffen wurde, sehr vermissen. In dieser Zeit... Continue Reading →
https://jhiblog.org/2023/02/20/cosmopolitanism-in-eighteenth-century-france/ My post for JHI blog has just been published! Credit: An extremely detailed survey of the activities surrounding the building of the tower of Babel. Engraving, c. 1680. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
https://youtu.be/NxpMxccfrQ0 The Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Honoré Rémy On 29 May 2022, I was invited to give a lecture on my article in Early Modern French Studies, 'Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy'. I am very thankful to the organisers at the Open Lectures on Freemasonry. Check their other... Continue Reading →
Now that I have started to acquire some degree of mastership in several languages, I am beginning to wonder about the side-effects of being a polyglot. Googling the term "polyglot" I came to the wikipedia page dedicated to multilingualism. According to some studies, there is a difference being made between "compound bilinguals" and "coordinate bilinguals".... Continue Reading →
Thank you Peter for commenting on "Polyfonias" and delving into literary analyses. I would like to add to your comment on monolingualism. It seems that today we have forgotten our past when it comes to language. Our past was Babelian (but not in the sense that the myth should serve the construction of a universal... Continue Reading →
Excellent article on Humboldt and cosmopolitanism, arguing that the 'Weltbürger' was a scientist and the scientist a 'Weltbürger.' This reminds me of my own research on the use of the term cosmopolitan and citizen of the world in eighteenth century France. Very often people would use it as a moniker to claim a position of... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 