!!Christian Benne - Biography
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Christian Benne is Full Professor of European literature and intellectual history at The University of Copenhagen. currently leads the research group Thinking the European Republic of Letters at the Centre for Modern European Studies at Copenhagen University (with Sabrina Ebbersmeyer); cf. http://cemes.ku.dk/research. He has previously led a research group on Literary Aesthetics (2013-15, Southern Danish U, Odense). Christian Benne serves as the current president of the Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft (Mainz) and as deputy director of the Nietzsche Foundation (Naumburg). He is the general editor of Orbis Litterarum – International Review of Literary Studies, co-editor of Athenäum – Jahrbuch der Friedrich Schlegel-Gesellschaft and co-editor of Nietzsche-Lektüren (Heidelberger Akademie derWissenschaften). He is also a member on various scholarly boards and panels (Angermion. Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism, Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers, London; Nietzsche-Studien, Berlin; Cultura della modernità;Pisa; Schlegeliana, Paderborn; NIE-INE, Swiss national project on digital editions; graduate school for aesthetics, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg) and an affiliated member of the Zentrum für Buchwissenschaft (LMU München). He is jurymember for the Hans Christian Andersen-Prize (Odense) and served as German Honorary Consul on the island of Fyn from 2007-2015.\\ \\