TY - JOUR
T1 - The origins of modern academic autobiography
T2 - Felix Meiner's Die Wissenschaft der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, 1921-1929
AU - Popkin, Jeremy D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This essay examines Felix Meiner's Die Wissenschaft der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen ('Present-Day Knowledge in Self-Portraits', twenty-eight published volumes published between 1921 and 1929), particularly its two volumes of historians' autobiographies, as a paradigm through which we may understand the history of scholarly autobiography and the conditions under which academics turn to first-person writing. It also explores the cultural, political and sociological context of the volumes' publication and marketing.
AB - This essay examines Felix Meiner's Die Wissenschaft der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen ('Present-Day Knowledge in Self-Portraits', twenty-eight published volumes published between 1921 and 1929), particularly its two volumes of historians' autobiographies, as a paradigm through which we may understand the history of scholarly autobiography and the conditions under which academics turn to first-person writing. It also explores the cultural, political and sociological context of the volumes' publication and marketing.
KW - Academic-autobiography collections
KW - Felix meiner
KW - Germany
KW - Historians' autobiography
KW - Professions
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U2 - 10.1080/13642520802639595
DO - 10.1080/13642520802639595
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77949723563
SN - 1364-2529
VL - 13
SP - 27
EP - 42
JO - Rethinking History
JF - Rethinking History
IS - 1
ER -