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Daniel Göske is the new president of the Göttingen Academy
Image: Adrienne LochteThe office of the second vice president will be taken over by the turcologist Prof. Jens Peter Laut, who already held this position from 2016 to 2020. First Vice President will be the biologist and forest scientist Prof. Andrea Polle. A new election was necessary because the previous Academy President Prof. Ulf Diederichsen died in November.
Daniel Göske was born in Lüneburg, Germany, in 1960. He studied English/American and German language and literature in Göttingen, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, and at Pennsylvania State University, USA. After his state examinations and doctorate in Göttingen, he went to Princeton for two years, and after his habilitation in Göttingen, he went to the Technical University of Braunschweig for three years as a professor. Since 2001 he has been teaching at the University of Kassel. His scholarly interests include English-language classics of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary translation, transnational reception history, and the relationship between literature and religion. He is a full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, a corresponding member of the Mainz Academy, and since 2014 a full member of the Göttingen Academy.
Founded in 1751, the Göttingen Academy today oversees more than 20 long-term projects of national and international standing in the field of basic research in the humanities and, with its approximately 380 full and corresponding members, has a unique network of expertise in the region and worldwide. It regularly addresses the public in lecture series, the academy week and at lecture evenings in the Lower Saxony state parliament. It awards prizes for outstanding scientific achievements and pays particular attention to young scientists.
With Daniel Göske, a scientist from the University of Kassel has now been elected to head the academy for the second time. In 2016 and until 2020, Prof. Dr. Andreas Gardt, Professor of German Linguistics and Linguistic History at the University of Kassel, took office as the first president in its more than 250-year history who did not hold a professorship in Göttingen.