Executive Board
Daniel Göske, born in Lüneburg in 1960, studied English and German at the University of Göttingen, the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, and Pennsylvania State University, USA. After his PhD he spent two years at Princeton as a Visiting Fellow with the English Department. Following his Habilitation at Göttingen, he became Professor for American Studies at the Technical University at Braunschweig and, in 2001, at Kassel University. His research focuses on 19th and 20th century literature in English, literary translation, transnational reception studies, and the connections between literature and religion. He is a full member of the German Academy of Language and Literature and the Academy of the Sciences and Humanities at Göttingen, and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz.
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Bertram Brenig was born in Munich in 1959. He studied veterinary medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. After completing his doctorate, he worked at the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research in Edinburgh and at the Institute for Immunology at LMU Munich. He then carried out research as a Research Assistant and Group Leader at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics at LMU Munich and at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. After his Habilitation in 1993, he was appointed Professor and Director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Göttingen. He conducts research at the intersection of veterinary medicine and animal breeding, with a particular interest in the study of economically significant genetic diseases in domestic and other domesticated animals. For his international commitment, he received the Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China in 2012, and two honorary professorships. He has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2001 and a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony since 2002.
Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Theaterstraße 7
37073 Göttingen
Frank Rexroth was born in Kehl in 1960. He studied history and German language and literature in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he received his doctorate in 1988 with a dissertation on the history of the first German universities. He then spent three years at a research institute in London, followed by a position at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, and finally at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he completed his Habilitation in 1998 with a thesis on the emergence of marginalised groups in medieval London. His first appointment took him to Bielefeld University, after which he joined the University of Göttingen in 2000. Rexroth specialises in the social history of medieval science, the microhistory of social groups, and the history and theory of historiography. His work has earned him various prizes and awards. Additionally, he has held visiting scholar positions at universities and research institutes in Los Angeles, Berlin, Princeton, Dublin and Paris. He has been a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony since 2004.
Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Theaterstraße 7
37073 Göttingen