Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
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Sabine Doering-Manteufful | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sabine Künsting |
| Occupation | Ethnologist |
Sabine Doering-Manteuffel (born Sabine Künsting) is a German ethnologist. On 1 October 2011 she became the first woman to accept the appointment as president (university rector) of the University of Augsburg. She thereby became the first president/rector of a university in Bavaria.[1][2]
Sabine Künsting was born and grew up in Bonn, which at that time was the "provisional capital" of the Federal Republic of Germany. After completing her schooling she undertook an internship at the newly opened Romano-Germanic Museum down-river in Cologne, as a preparation for studying classics at university.
Partly as a result of her experiences at the museum she instead chose to study ethnology, philology, political sciences and history at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn. It was at Cologne that she met Peter Tschohl, with whom she subsequently teamed up.[2][3] It was from Cologne that in 1984 she received her doctorate.[4]
The focus of her academic studies at this time was on the nomadic hunter culture of the far north and on African societies.[2] Between 1984 and 1989 she was based at the University of Bonn as a research assistant.[5]
In 1987, she took a term as a visiting scholar at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John's campus) in Canada.[2] The next year she was in receipt of a post-doctoral bursary from the "Maison des Sciences de l'Homme" in Paris.[5] She obtained her habilitation from the University of Mainz in 1993, with financial supported from the DFG: two years later accepted a teaching chair at Augsburg.[2]
In 1999 she became a guest professor at the University of Pittsburgh Center for West European Studies,[6] and in 2003 (in combination with an associate directorship of studies) at the Paris "Maison des Sciences de l’Homme". There have been numerous other study visits in North America, Mexico and Israel.[2] Between 2008 and 2011 she served as dean of the Faculty of History and Philology at Augsburg. This was followed by her election as university president on 8 June 2011 in succession to Wilfried Bottke, the appointment taking effect in October of that year.[1][7]
Her book, Das Okkulte, appeared in 2008 and won for her the "Prize for the Promotion of the Translation of Humanities Literature" ("Preis zur Förderung der Übersetzung geisteswissenschaftlicher Literatur") from (jointly) the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Book-trade Exchange ("Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels") and the German Foreign Ministry.[8] The book addresses the contemporary growth in interest in The Occult and compares it with other manifestations of "Unreason" through the ages, tracking developments from the Middle Ages to the present, in the context of "new media" such as the invention of printing and, more recently, of the internet.[9] She identifies Wikipedia as a "forum for occult content".[clarification needed][10]
Other activities
Corporate boards
- Deutsche Bank, member of the regional advisory board[11]
Non-profit organizations
- Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, member of the board of trustees [12]
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), member of the board of trustees (2018–2019)[13]
