Professor of Intellectual HistoryProf. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Contact Information
Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 400.01.19
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (0) 6221 54 4345
kurtz@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Please contact Shupin Lang for an appointment: lang@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de
Curriculum Vitae (Excerpt)
2009– Full Professor (W3) of Intellectual History, Heidelberg University
2009 Director, Independent Research Group “Standards of Validity in Late Imperial Chinese Discourses,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2009–2010 Associate Professor of Chinese, Emory University (on leave)
2003–2008 Assistant Professor of Chinese, Emory University
2002–2003 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2000–2002 Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1997–2000 Research Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
2003 Dr. phil. (Chinese Studies), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (summa cum laude)
1997 M.A. (Chinese Studies), Free University of Berlin (summa cum laude)
Recent Publications
The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Joshua Fogel. Co-edited with Joan Judge, Ori Sela, Dan Shao, and Hugh Shapiro. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024.
“Opening Up the Well of Reason: Li Wenyu’s Religious and Academic Writings for the Jesuit Imprimerie de T’ou-sè-wè.” In Yangzi yu Huawen: Jindai Xianggang yu Shanghai de xishu Zhongyi he chuban 洋字與華文：近代香港與上海的西書中譯和出版. Chinese Translations and Publications of Western Books in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the Modern Era. Edited by Song Gang 宋剛, 50–82. Hong Kong: Shangwu yinshuguan, 2024.
Wissensorte in China. Co-edited with Martin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2023.
Ambivalent Enmity. Co-edited with Johannes Becke. Themed issue of The Journal of Transcultural Studies 14, 1–2 (2023).
“Cultural Revivalism in Israel and China: Imagining Lives against the Present” (with Johannes Becke). The Journal of Transcultural Studies 14, 1–2 (2023): 96–138.
Uses of the Past Between Europe and East Asia. Co-edited with Martin Dusinberre. Special issue of The Historical Journal 64, 1 (February 2021).
The Discovery of Chinese Logic. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. [Chinese translation Zhongguo luoji de faxian 中國邏輯的發現. Nanjing: Jiangsu wenyi chubanshe, 2020.]
Powerful Arguments: Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China. Co-edited with Martin Hofmann and Ari Daniel Levine. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.
“Reasoning in Style: The Formation of ‘Logical Writing’ in Late Qing China.” In Powerful Arguments. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020, pp. 565–606.
Reading the Signs: Philology, History, Prognostication. Festschrift for Michael Lackner. Co-edited with Iwo Amelung. Munich: Iudicium, 2018.
Memberships and other functions
Fellow, Marsilius-Kolleg, Heidelberg University (2023–2024)
Member, Academia Europaea
Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
Association for Asian Studies
European Association of Chinese Studies
History of Science Society
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde (German Association of Asian Studies)