The PhD project’s aim is to comprehend the life and work of Heinrich Loewe (1869-1951) in a transcultural context with its whole complexity. Loewe, librarian, scholar and Zionist activist belongs to the most important protagonists of German Jewry in the beginning 20th century.Loewe's life was special in many respects. But it also has paradigmatic traits of a whole German-Jewish generation: His life was connected to different places and persons and twisted in different societies, communities and institutions: Loewe worked, thought, developed ideas, loved and hated in translocal and transcultural networks. My biographical study should meet this point. I try to connect „classical“ approaches, like discourse-analysis, with the concepts of histoire croisée and network analysis. These approaches shall be integrated into a transdisciplinary biographical method. While discourse-analysis focuses on Loewe's intellectual life, the methods, implied by network analysis and histoire croisée, concentrate on the sociocultural context of his life history. Connections in and between different networks, like family, friends, profession and political involvements will be set into relation. In this context, the study asks for the importance of space referring to the formation of cultural (multi-)identity. [ - ]

The PhD project’s aim is to comprehend the life and work of Heinrich Loewe (1869-1951) in a... [ + ]