Ulrich Johannes Schneider

Ulrich Johannes Schneider ( born May 4, 1956 in Gelnhausen ) is a German librarian and historian of philosophy. He is currently Director of the University Library of Leipzig and adjunct professor of philosophy at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig.

Life

Schneider, who grew up in Frankfurt am Main, studied at the Technical University of Berlin philosophy, reaching in 1980 the Master of Arts. Between 1983 and 1988 he was a research assistant at the Institute of the TU philosophical. In 1988 he received his doctorate and received a six-month research fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for London. From 1988 to 1989 he was a member of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica, 1989-1991 postdoctoral fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1989-1995 Directeur de Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. This employment added a one-year research grant from the DAAD in 1991 at the Paris Maison des Sciences de l' Homme. From 1992 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, where he habilitated in 1998. From 1998 to 2005 he was head of research projects and research agendas of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Since 2004 he has been an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig and since 2006 at the Institute for Cultural Studies. In November 2005 he was director of the French Center of the University of Leipzig and is since January 2006 Director of the University Library of Leipzig.

Schneider ran from 2004 to 2007, the DFG research project " Development of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Factual Universal Lexicon ". From 2007 to 2009 he headed the DFG project " course catalogs as sources disciplinary organized science."

Since 2004 Schneider 's (re-elected 2005) with Riccardo Pozzo from Verona co-editor of the series "Studies and materials on university history ", since 2002 chairman of the German Society for French-speaking philosophy. He is also a founding member (1994 ) of the International Society for Intellectual History.

Above all, through exhibitions, articles in newspapers and as a presenter of Thomasius club Schneider tried to communicating science to the public.

Research priorities

Besides the history, especially cultural history of philosophy, Schneider studied the history of universities in the Age of Enlightenment. He also deals with the French 20th-century philosophy and library history.

Publications

• The invention of general knowledge. Encyclopedic Writing in the Age of Enlightenment. Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005780-4.
• The knowledge of the world: Germany needs a public digital library, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2010, page 11