Gerhard Lauer is a scholar who uses historical, experimental and computational methods to understand cultural behaviour of humans, specifically their books and reading - more here https://www.gerhardlauer.io

Curriculum vitae

2021 Gutenberg Chair for Book Studies, University of Mainz

2017 Chair for Digital Humanities, University of Basel

2010 Founding director of the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities

2002 Chair of German studies, University of Göttingen

2000 Dr.phil.habil., German studies, University of Munich

1992 Dr.phil. (summa cum laude), German studies (Wolfgang Frühwald), philosophy (Robert Spaemann), German as a Foreign Language (Harald Weinrich), University of Munich

1992 Assistant professor of German studies at the University of Munich

1989 M.A. (with honors), German studies, philosophy, musicology, and Jewish studies, University of Munich