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| Thomas Ahnert, MA, PhD, FRHistS |
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Position
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Senior Lecturer, History |
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Outline Biography
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He graduated with an MA and a PhD in History from St John's College in Cambridge. From April 2002 to March 2005 he was a post-doctoral fellow, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, at the University of Edinburgh, and was a participant in an interdisciplinary research project on the 'Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment', funded by a Leverhulme Research Interchange Grant. He took up the post of Lecturer in Early Modern Intellectual History in April 2005. |
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Research Interests
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His main area of current research is on the comparative history of the Enlightenment, particularly in Scotland and Germany, from the late seventeenth
to the early nineteenth century. He is especially interested in the role of religion in the Enlightenment and the relationship between different areas of learning
in the early modern period, such as theology, law and ethics, natural philosophy and historiography. Most recently he has been writing on debates about the
soul in Enlightenment Scotland and on the reception of Newtonianism in eighteenth-century Germany. He is currently working on a book about the interaction
between religion and the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Scotland. |
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Current & Recent Research Students
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| Bertrand, Ester | In the footsteps of Arnold Geulinex: Johannes Swartenhengst and the Controversy over Cartesianism | Current | | Nicolai, Katherine | Adam Ferguson's Engagement with Classical Antiquity | Current | | Ridder-Patrick, Jane | Astrology in Early Modern Scotland, ca. 1543-1726 | Current | | Andersson Burnett, Linda | In search of Northern Noble Savages: British depictions of Scottish Highlanders and the Sami people of Scandinavia c.1760 - 1822 | Current | | Ross, Kevin | James Hutton's Metaphysics and Theory of Language | Current | | Roussopoulos, Theodoros | Religion and Educational Institutions in the Greek Enlightenment | Current | | Thordarson, Sveinbjorn | Arguments from Design in eighteenth-century British and French Philosophy | Current | | Sato, Sora | Edmund Burke’s Conservatism Reconsidered: Common-law mind, Commerce and Manners | Current | | Wolf, Jeffrey |
Dissecting the Soul: Medical Theory and the Making of a ‘Science of Man’ in the Scottish Enlightenment |
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See School Theses Archive |
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Teaching
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- Monarchy and the Enlightenment: the Transformation of Political Culture, c.1740-1790 (Option)
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Contact us
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School of History, Classics and Archaeology
The University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Building
50 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JY
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 6693
Fax: +44 (0) 131 651 3070
E-mail: shc@ed.ac.uk
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