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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)
- show detailsOpera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914Körner, AxelDuration: 10/2021 – 09/2026Funded by: ERC European Research CouncilInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- show detailsKörner, A.America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Italian Risorgimento, 1763-1865.Princeton University Press. 2017.
- show detailsKörner, A.; Smith, A. I. P.; Miller, N. (Eds.)America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin AmericaPalgrave Macmillan, New York. 2012.
- show detailsKörner, A.Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy. From Unification to FascismNew York / London: Routledge. 2011.
- show detailsKörner, A.; Kühl, P. (Eds.)Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth CenturyCambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022.DOI: 9781108920636
- show detailsKörner, A.Beethoven vor dem Nationalstaat. Historische Lebenswelten und ZeiterfahrungenIn: Lodes, B.; Unseld, M. (Eds.)Beethoven-Geflechte. Networks and Cultures of Memory. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2024. pp. 25–63.
- Publikationspreis: Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prizeshow detailsKörner, Axel (Neuere Kultur- und Ideengeschichte)awarded in 2018 by American Historical Association.
- show detailsAntrittsvorlesung zum Dies Academicus der Universität Leipzig200 Jahre Revolution 1820-23: Metternich, Rossini und die musikalische Kultur der HabsburgermonarchieNeuere Kultur- und IdeengeschichteEvent Organiser: Körner, Axel02/12/2021
- show detailsOpening Keynote, Conference Music & Power, Accademia Chiegiana SienaMusic, Power, and the Changing Semantics of Time in the Long Nineteenth CenturyNeuere Kultur- und IdeengeschichteEvent Organiser: Körner, Axel02/12/2021
- show detailsSeminarreihe “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 EuropeNeuere Kultur- und IdeengeschichteEvent Organiser: Körner, Axel23/09/2021
- show detailsKonferenz “Vom Alten abgrenzen und das Neue vorwegnehmen? Umordnen von Staat und Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert in zeitlicher Perspektive”, Istituto Storico Austriaco, RomPower, Cultural Representation and Changing Semantics of Time. Beethoven and the last Habsburg Elector of CologneNeuere Kultur- und IdeengeschichteEvent Organiser: Körner, Axel22/09/2021
- show detailsERC Study DayOpera in Nineteenth-Century DalmatiaNeuere Kultur- und IdeengeschichteEvent Organiser: Körner, Axel; Babic, Barbara; Friesenegger, Dietmar24/01/2022 – 25/01/2022