About
Tim Porzer is a Researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, affiliated with the German Institute for Modern German Literature within the Philosophy and Philology faculty. He currently serves as a scientific employee at the Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel Research Center. His academic career includes roles as a Research Associate and Research Assistant at institutions focusing on German literature and Romanticism.
Porzer holds a Master of Arts in German Studies from the University of Mainz (2019–2020), with a thesis on Lion Feuchtwanger's Jud Süß, and a Bachelor of Arts in German and Philosophy from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2012–2016).
His research focuses on letters as therapeutic tools, Catholic Romanticism, magnetism in literature, and Friedrich Schlegel's later works. He has lectured on topics like 'animal magnetism in the Romantic era' and 'Friedrich Schlegel's correspondence with Christine von Stransky.'
Publications include studies on epistolary practices, religious themes in literature, and digital humanities approaches to historical communication. Porzer collaborates actively with the KFSA (Critical Friedrich Schlegel Edition) project and engages in interdisciplinary research on 19th-century German literature.
