Jacques Le Rider

Jacques Le Rider (born February 20, 1954) is a French academic, Germanist and historian.

Biography

Jacques Le Rider was born in Athens, Kingdom of Greece, the son of Georges Le Rider. He attended the École normale supérieure (1973–1977), was an agrégé in German (1976), graduate of Sciences Po (1977), post-graduate doctor (1982), and Doctor of State in Letters (1989). After having been an assistant at the Paris-Sorbonne University (1977–1981), lecturer, then senior lecturer at the Paris-East Créteil University (1981–1990), professor at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (1990–1999). Le Rider has been since 1999 director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études in the Historical and Philological Sciences section, chair entitled "Europe and the Germanic World (modern and contemporary period)". He has been a foreign correspondent member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since April 2015.

From December 1983 to July 1986, he was director of the Franco-German Cultural Institute in Tübingen; in 1988 (January/July), visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle; in 1993, he was elected junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France; in the first semester of 1993–1994, he was associate professor at the University of Graz; from September 1994 to August 1996, cultural, scientific and cooperation advisor to the French Embassy in Austria, director of the French Institute in Vienna; lecturer at the European Institute of the University of Geneva during the summer semester 2000; in 2000–2001, associate researcher at the Forschungskolleg Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation of the University of Cologne; in the summer semester of 2004, visiting professor at the University of Mannheim; in March 2007, visiting professor at the University of São Paulo (Doctoral School of History); in the first quarter of 2008, visiting professor at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne; in January-February 2009, visiting professor at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduation School for Literary Studies at the Free University of Berlin; April-June 2010, guest of the Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster; October 2012-January 2013, City of Vienna-fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna; May 4/June 5, 2015, visiting professor at the University of Mannheim.

Le Rider has edited Friedrich Nietzsche, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Goethe. And he has translated Lou Andreas-Salomé, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Theodor Adorno, Fritz Mauthner and Stefan Zweig.

Works

• Le Cas Otto Weininger. Racines de l'antiféminisme et de l'antisémitisme (1982)
• Modernité viennoise et crises de l'identité (1990; 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1994; 2000)
• La Mitteleuropa (1994; 2nd edition revised, 1996)
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Historicisme et modernité (1995)
• Les Couleurs et les Mots (1997; 2nd edition revised, 1999)
• Nietzsche en France, de la fin du XIXe siècle au temps présent (1999)
• Journaux intimes viennois (2000)
• Freud, de l’Acropole au Sinaï. Le retour à l’antique des modernes viennois (2002)
• Arthur Schnitzler ou la Belle Époque viennoise (2003)
• Malwida von Meysenbug. Une Européenne du XIXe siècle (2005)
• L’Allemagne au temps du réalisme. De l'espoir au désenchantement (1848-1890) (2008)
• Faust, le vertige de la science (2010; with Paul-Jean Franceschini)
• Fritz Mauthner: Scepticisme linguistique et modernité. Une biographie intellectuelle (2012)
• Les Juifs viennois à la belle époque (1867-1914) (2013)
• La Censure à l'œuvre. Freud, Kraus, Schnitzler (2015)
• Karl Kraus. Phare et brûlot de la modernité viennoise (2018)

External links

• Works by Jacques Le Rider at Persée
• Works by Jacques Le Rider at Gallica