Dr. Uta Lohmann

• Joel Bril Löwe: The Breslau School Writings in Context (1791-1801) (DFG, 2019-2023)
• Analysis of the relationship between Haskala and Neo-Humanism, edition of educational programmatic works by David Friedländer and his correspondence with Wilhelm von Humboldt (DFG, 2012-2016).

Since 04/2025: Substitute professor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Hamburg

03/2020 to 11/2023: Research assistant at the Institute for the History of German Jews (Hamburg) with a “separate position”. Head of the DFG project Joel Bri'l Löwe: Die Breslauer Schulschriften im Kontext (together with Dr. Kathrin Wittler, FU Berlin)

10/2019 to 02/2020: Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (University of Hamburg)

01/2019 to 06/2019: Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (University of Hamburg)

02/2015 to 12/2018: Second funding phase “Eigene Stelle” in the DFG project “Analyse der Beziehungen zwischen Haskala und Neuhumanismus” (term extension until the end of 2016)

09/2012 to 08/2014: “Own position” in the DFG project “Analysis of the relationships between Haskalah and Neo-Humanism” (University of Hamburg, Faculty of Education 1)

01/2012 to 08/2012: Research assistant at the University of Hamburg: Independent preparation of a research project. Collaboration in the final phase of the DFG project “Translation and Edition of the ‘Four Epistles’ (1782-85) of the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Hartwig Wessely” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann (University of Hamburg)

04/2011 to 12/2011: Research assistant at the edition series “Deutsch-jüdische Autoren des 19 Jahrhunderts. Schriften zu Staat, Nation, Gesellschaft” (University of Duisburg-Essen)

02/2012: Doctorate at the University of Duisburg-Essen, overall grade “summa cum laude”

08/2008 to 03/2011: Completion of the dissertation

04/2001 to 07/2008: Educational leave; collaboration in the creation of the source edition “Lerne Vernunft!” Jewish educational programs between tradition and modernization. Source texts from the Haskalah period, 1760-1811

12/1997 to 03/2001: Co-editor of the series “Jüdische Bildungsgeschichte in Deutschland” published by Waxmann Verlag, Münster (together with Ingrid Lohmann). Collaboration in the production of volumes 1, 2 and 5 of the series Jüdische Bildungsgeschichte in Deutschland

03/1993 to 11/1997: Research assistant in the DFG project “Jüdische Dialogkultur und das Problem der Interkulturalität. Historical Reconstruction Using the Example of the Jewish Free School in Berlin” (Institute for General Educational Science, University of Hamburg)

04/1992 to 02/1993: Research assistant on the “Bibliography on Anti-Semitism” (Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical University of Berlin)

05/1991 to 04/1992: picture editing and guided tours as part of the exhibition “Jüdische Lebenswelten” (Berliner Festspiele GmbH)

04/82 to 07/91: Study of Jewish and German Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the Free University Berlin and the Hebrew University Jerusalem

07/1989 to 11/1990: Student assistant in the DFG project “Talmud Yerushalmi” (Institute for Jewish Studies, Free University of Berlin)

06/1988 to 03/1989: Research assistant for “Germania Judaica” (Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

• The History of Jewish Education
• The Jewish Enlightenment in Prussia
• Reformpolitik and early Reform Judaism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
• Jewish-Christian relations around 1800
• The Study of Biographies
• Theories, Practices and Processes of Transfer of Bible translations in the Prussian Haskalah
• Visual Art and the Aesthetics of the Haskalah

Master-Seminar:

David Friedländer's Epistle to Provost Teller (1799). Contexts and reactions (summer semester 2025)

Bachelor seminar:

Education and upbringing in the Haskalah (summer semester 2025)