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Martin Hofmann, Dr.
Academic Staff
Position
- Research Fellow, East Asian Intellectual History
Contact information
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 120
69115 Heidelberg
Office hours: Wednesdays, 11-12 am (KJC, Room 120)
Germany
- Email:
- hofmann@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
- Phone:
- +49 (0) 6221 54 4383
- Fax:
- +49 (0) 6221 54 4012
About Martin Hofmann
Dr. Martin Hofmann studied Sinology, Philosophy and Public Law at Wuerzburg University where he completed his PhD thesis on Song dynasty commentaries in 2007. He taught at the universities of Wuerzburg and Leipzig, held a post-doc fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and did research at Harvard, the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing, and Fu Jen University in Taipei. His research interests include Chinese intellectual history, Chinese cartography, and concepts of tradition-building in late imperial and republican China. He joined the chair of Intellectual History in fall 2009, pursuing research on the argumentative function of visualizations as part of project D 15 “Making Powerful Arguments.”
