Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Prof. Dr. Herlth, Jens

Prof. Dr. Jens Herlth

Full Professor in Fribourg

Departement of Languages and Literatures

Phone
+41 26 300 79 12
Fax
+41 26 300 96 97
E-Mail
jens.herlth@unifr.ch
Postal Address
Rue du Criblet 13
CH - 1700 Fribourg
Consultation Hour
Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung.

Studies in Slavic Philology, German language and literature and east Slavic philology in Cologne and Moscow. Language courses and research trips in Russia, Poland and Croatia. Doctorate 2002 in Cologne. Habilitation 2007 in Cologne with a thesis called “Auf schmalem Grat: Der polnische Katastrophismus im 29. u. 20. Jahrhundert. Poetik, Rhetorik, Geschichtsverständnis”. Since 2007, full professor for Slavic studies in Fribourg. Courses and seminars about Russian, Polish and Serbian (Bosnian, Croatian) literature of the 19.-21. century. Key activities: Russian poetry, Fedor Dostojevskij, literature in the context of the history of thought, philosophy of history and kulturkritik in Poland, Polish intellectual history, Stanisław Brzozowski.

 

Recent Publications

«На каком расстоянии кончается человеколюбие?» Толстой и Достоевский в 1877 году: социальная эпистемология романа [«At what distance does love for humanity end?» Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in 1877: The Social Epistemology of the Novel], in: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 1/2019 (155), S. 42-61.

https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/155_nlo_1_2019/article/20635/

On Brzozowski’s Presence and Absence in Poland and Beyond, in: Stanisław Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas: Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond, ed. by Jens Herlth & Edward M. Swiderski, Bielefeld: Transcript 2019, S. 5-17.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/chunk_detail_seite.php?doi=10.14361%2F9783839446416-001

The Cult of Will and Power: Did Brzozowski Inspire Ukrainian Nationalism?, in: Stanisław Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas: Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond, ed. by Jens Herlth & Edward M. Swiderski, Bielefeld: Transcript 2019, S. 107-131.

https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783839446416/9783839446416-006/9783839446416-006.pdf

Andrej Platonov: Džan, in: Die russische Erzählung, hrsg. v. Bodo Zelinsky, unter Mitarbeit von Dagmar Klingner, Köln – Weimar – Wien: Böhlau, 2018, S. 496-514, 756-759.

Fedor Dostoevskij: Krotkaja – Die Sanfte, in: Džan, in: Die russische Erzählung, hrsg. v. Bodo Zelinsky, unter Mitarbeit von Dagmar Klingner, Köln – Weimar – Wien: Böhlau, 2018, S. 324-340, 715-717.

Między poetyką a polityką: teoria powieści Stanisława Brzozowskiego, in: Colloquia Biblioteki Kultury Polskiej we Włoszech. Polskość w świecie: Stanisław Brzozowski, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UKSW, 2018, S. 43-52.

“These are the mysteries of the barbarians, my dear”: The Concept of Barbarism in Polish Romanticism (Zygmunt Krasiński, Adam Mickiewicz), in: Markus Winkler, in collaboration with Maria Boletsi, Jens Herlth, Christian Moser, Julian Reidy, Melanie Rohner, Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts. Vol. I: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2018, S. 198-235.

Tanatopoetyka u Josifa Brodskiego i Zbigniewa Herberta, in: Mojry. Początek-trwanie-koniec, pod redakcją Marii Cieśli-Korytowskiej i Magdaleny Siwiec, Kraków: Avalon, 2018, S. 309-324.

Wer sind Herberts Barbaren?, in: Herr Cogito im Garten. Zbigniew Herbert, hrsg. v. Andreas Lawaty, Piotr Przybyła und Marek Zybura, Osnabrück: Fibre, 2018, S. 135-151.

Of Slaveholders and Renegades: Semantic Uncertainties in Volodymyr Anonovych’s Conversion to Ukrainianness, in: Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa / Nationalities Affairs. New series, 49/2017, pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.11649/sn.1305 https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/article/view/sn.1305/3146

Stanisław Brzozowski [2017], in: The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture. Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University). https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13829

 

Complete List of Publications

The complete list of publications by Prof. Dr. Jens Herlt can be found here (in German).