Tina Asmussen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellows are early career scholars who are ordinarily no more than five years past the granting of the doctorate and who are financed in part or in whole by the MPIWG. These scholars carry minor responsibilities (no more than 10% of their time) within their research unit.
Department I
Dr.
Residence:
1. Oktober 2014 to 30. September 2017
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Tina Asmussen gained her doctorate in Early Modern History from the University of Lucerne with a thesis on the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher entitled: “Scientia Kircheriana—Maschinerien des Wissens bei Athanasius Kircher.” Her study investigates mechanisms of knowledge production and distribution as well as the collaboratively conducted modes of marketing Kircherian science. She is currently working on her second book project entitled “Subterranean Economies—Resource Flows and Metal Culture in Early Modern Mining, 1490-1630.” This project investigates the perceptions and validations of ores within their different aggregate conditions, manufacturing processes, and consumption contexts. Methodologically her research connects approaches from history of science and technology, material culture studies, and cultural history of economy and art in order to analyze practices, processes, and discourses upon metallic resources within learned, elite, and craft cultures. Tina Asmussen is a member of the editorial board of the history journal traverse—Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Révue d’histoire

 

Selected publications: 

Asmussen, T. (2016). Glück Auf! Fortuna und Risiko im frühneuzeitlichen Bergbau. FKW, Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und Visuelle Kultur, 60, 30-41.

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Asmussen, T., Burkart, L., & Rößler, H. (Eds.). (submitted). Musaeum celeberrimum, cujus magnum Antiquariae rei, statuarum imaginum, picturarumque partem. Ed. Georgio de Sepi. Amsterdam, 1678. Vita a semetipso conscripta. Augsburg 1684.

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Asmussen, T. (2016). The Kux as a site of mediation: economic practices and material desires in the early modern German mining industry. In S. Burghartz, & L. Burkart (Eds.), Sites of mediation: connected histories of places, processes, and objects in Europe and beyond, 1450-1650 (pp. 159-182). Leiden: Brill.

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Asmussen, T. (2015). "Wir werden ja vmb deinen willen teglich erwürget vnd sind geacht wie Schlachtschaffe": Medialisierung und Funktionalisierung von Gewalt in Flugblättern der Wickiana. In A. Messerli, & M. Schilling (Eds.), Intermedialität des frühneuzeitlichen Flugblatts (pp. 113-133). Stuttgart: Hirzel.

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Mazbouri, M., Asmussen, T., Nellen, S., & Vallotton, F. (2015). Editorial. Figures et acteurs du scandale en Suisse, 16e–20e siècles = Figuren und Akteure des Skandals in der Schweiz, 16.–20. Jahrhundert. Traverse - Zeitschrift für Geschichte / Revue d'Histoire, 28(3), 17-31.

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Contact

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 
Boltzmannstraße 22 
14195 Berlin 
Germany

tasmussen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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