Prof. Dr. Axel Körner

Prof. Dr. Axel Körner

Professor

Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15, Room 3.205
04107 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 37087

Abstract

Axel Körner is Professor of Modern Cultural and Intellectual History at Leipzig University and Honorary Professor at University College London. He held visiting positions at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at New York University. In addition to modern Italian, European and Habsburg history, as well as transnational history and the history of political thought, he published widely on the history of opera and music in transnational perspective. His “America in Italy. The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865” (Princeton, 2017) won the Helen & Howard Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association.

Professional career

  • since 10/2021
    Professor of Modern Cultural and Intellectual History, Historisches Seminar, Universität Leipzig
  • since 10/2021
    Honorary Professor, Department of History, University College London
  • 10/2020 - 03/2021
    Leibniz-Professor (visiting professor), Universität Leipzig
  • 07/2012 - 09/2021
    Professor of Modern History, Department of History, University College London
  • 10/2005 - 07/2012
    Associate Professor (Reader) in Modern European History, Department of History, University College London
  • 10/1996 - 09/2005
    Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Modern European History, Department of History, University College London
  • 10/1994 - 09/1996
    Research-Fellow, University of Linz, Austria

Panel Memberships

  • since 01/2023
    Ordinary Member, Academia Europaea
  • since 12/2022
    Research associate at Leipzig Centre for the Study of France and the Francophonie (FZL), Universität Leipzig
  • since 10/2021
    Fellow at Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
  • since 01/2021
    Member (socio), Sezione Tedesca, Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano
  • since 01/2015
    Advisory Board, Journal "verdiperspektiven" (ed. by Anselm Gerhard, Universität Bern)
  • since 09/2014
    Advisory Board, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Neueste Geschichte Italiens (AG Italien)
  • since 10/2006
    Convener, Modern Italian History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London
  • 01/2012 - 09/2021
    Advisory Board, European Institute, University College London (UCL)
  • 10/2008 - 09/2021
    Founding Director, Centre for Transnational History, University College London (UCL)
  • Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914
    Körner, Axel
    Duration: 10/2021 – 09/2026
    Funded by: ERC European Research Council
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
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  • Körner, A.
    America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Italian Risorgimento, 1763-1865.
    Princeton University Press. 2017.
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  • Körner, A.; Smith, A. I. P.; Miller, N. (Eds.)
    America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
    Palgrave Macmillan, New York. 2012.
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  • Körner, A.
    Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy. From Unification to Fascism
    New York / London: Routledge. 2011.
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  • Körner, A.; Kühl, P. (Eds.)
    Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022.
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  • Körner, A.
    Beethoven vor dem Nationalstaat. Historische Lebenswelten und Zeiterfahrungen
    In: Lodes, B.; Unseld, M. (Eds.)
    Beethoven-Geflechte. Networks and Cultures of Memory. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2024. pp. 25–63.
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more publications

  • Publikationspreis: Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
    Körner, Axel (Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte)
    awarded in 2018 by American Historical Association.
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more awards

  • Antrittsvorlesung zum Dies Academicus der Universität Leipzig
    200 Jahre Revolution 1820-23: Metternich, Rossini und die musikalische Kultur der Habsburgermonarchie
    Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
    Event Organiser: Körner, Axel
    02/12/2021
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  • Opening Keynote, Conference Music & Power, Accademia Chiegiana Siena
    Music, Power, and the Changing Semantics of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
    Event Organiser: Körner, Axel
    02/12/2021
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  • Seminarreihe “Contrappunto | Modern History & Music History Talks”,German Historical Institute in Rome,
    Opera, Historiography, Archives – Any Lessons to Take? Approaching Imperial Politics of Opera in Habsburg Europe
    Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
    Event Organiser: Körner, Axel
    23/09/2021
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  • Konferenz “Vom Alten abgrenzen und das Neue vorwegnehmen? Umordnen von Staat und Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert in zeitlicher Perspektive”, Istituto Storico Austriaco, Rom
    Power, Cultural Representation and Changing Semantics of Time. Beethoven and the last Habsburg Elector of Cologne
    Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
    Event Organiser: Körner, Axel
    22/09/2021
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  • ERC Study Day
    Opera in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia
    Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
    Event Organiser: Körner, Axel; Babic, Barbara; Friesenegger, Dietmar
    24/01/2022 – 25/01/2022
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