Dr Claudia Wedepohl, Archivist
Claudia.Wedepohl(at)sas.ac.uk
I have studied Art History and Italian Literature at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg (MA, Dr. phil.), and joined the staff of the Warburg Institute in 2000 after two years spent at the institute as Aby-Warburg-Scholar.
My research focuses on two interrelated areas: the reception of late antique concepts and models in 15th-century Italian art and architecture, and historiography around 1900, in particular Aby Warburg and his circle. I am teaching courses in German Palaeography and give introductions to the Archive collection, with special attention to Warburg’s ideas and his method. Since I joined the Archive staff my scholarly work has been mainly concerned with the genesis of Aby Warburg’s key terms and concepts.
Apart from editing the proceedings of the colloquium “The Muses and Their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe” I am currently working on various projects, based on Warburg’s unpublished papers: firstly a monograph on the epistemological meaning of myth in his theoretical fragments, and secondly a number of editions. One of these editions will include materials from Warburg’s trip to America in 1895-96, others will contain notes he made for his two major unfinished works, i.e. the Habilitation (1900–1908) and the Mnemosyne Atlas (1924–1929). As co-editor of the “Gesammelte Schriften” series (Akademie Verlag, Berlin) I am responsible for the volume: Aby Warburg: “Kleine Schriften und Vorträge”.
I have held fellowships at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin and at the IK Morphomata, Universität zu Köln.