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My PhD won De Gruyter’s 10th Anniversary OA Competition

Posted on 14 October 2021 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Press Release 10 years of Open Access Books at De Gruyter – 10 Winning Titles! Winning titles of De Gruyter’s Open Access Book Anniversary competition announced Berlin, 27 September 2021 In late 2020, De Gruyter celebrated its 10th open access book … Continue reading →

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Self-fashioning and rhetoric in the french revolution: Anacharsis Cloots, orator of the human race

Posted on 2 July 2018 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of … Continue reading →

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The Education of Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) at the Berlin Académie militaire des nobles (1770–1773)

Posted on 2 July 2018 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

History of European Ideas. Published online 12 June 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615 https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2018.1477615. ABSTRACT This article examines the education that Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) received during his stay at the Berlin Académie des nobles (1770–1773). Cloots wrote at several occasions about his education there, notably … Continue reading →

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Mortier — Le rêve universaliste de l’orateur du genre humain

Posted on 18 November 2008 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Mortier, R. (2000). Le rêve universaliste de l’”Orateur du Genre humain”. In R. Mortier, Les Combats des Lumières (pp. 385-394). Paris: Aux amateurs de livres international. The Universalist idea was not something new or invented in the eighteenth century. However, … Continue reading →

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Avenel’s biography of Anacharsis Cloots

Posted on 12 November 2008 by Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D.

Avenel, Georges (1865), Anacharsis Cloots: L’orateur du genre humain, Paris : Librairie internationale. This is one of the very first biography existing on this not so well-known history character of the French Revolution, Anacharsis Cloots. The merit of this book is … Continue reading →

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