Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen
- E-Mail: schmibig@zedat.fu-berlin.de
- Telefon: +49 9131 85 64334
Full Professor
Home Institution: Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin
IKGF Visiting Fellow September 2014 - October 2014
IKGF Research Project
Curriculum vitae
Wilhelm Schmidt Biggemann, born 1946, is Professor of History of Philosophy and the Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin. He was educated at Ruhr Universität Bochum (1966-1974) in philosophy, german studies, history, and theology. From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the research staff of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, where he wrote his Habilitation thesis on early modern Encyclopedias. He has been invited to take up numerous fellowships and guest professorships e.g. in Prague, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, Princeton (University and Institute for Advanced Study), Tel Aviv. From 2006 to 2012 he was speaker at the DFG Research Unit “Topik und Tradition”. Since 2008 he has been a member, and since 2012 speaker of the Review Board “Philosophy” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Among the honors he won are the Golden Medal of the Karls University Prague (1993), and the Hamann Forschungspreis of the University of Münster (2013).
Selected Publications
Books and Editions
- Maschine und Teufel. Jean Pauls Jugendsatiren nach ihrer Modellgeschichte. Frei¬burg/München 1975.
- Topica Universalis. Eine Modellgeschichte humanistischer und barocker Wissenschaft. Hamburg 1983
- Philosophia perennis. Historische Umrisse abendländischer Spiritualität in Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Frankfurt 1998
- Apokalypse und Philologie. Wissensgeschichten und Weltentwürfe der Frühen Neuzeit. Hg. von Anja Hallacker und Boris Bayer. Göttingen 2007
- Geschichte der christlichen Kabbala Bd. 1 - 4 Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt 2012-14
- Geschichte Wissen. Eine Philosophie der Kontingenz im Anschluss an Schelling. Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt 2014