Dr. Heikki Lempa

Professor of History, Priscilla Payne Hurd Chair in the Arts and Humanities

Office: Comenius Hall 307
Phone: 610-861-1315
Email: lempah@moravian.edu

Education

Filosofian tohtori, University of Turku, Finland
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching

My new project, tentatively titled, The Bodies of the Others. A History of German Sports, Medicine, and Dance in a Global Context, 1700-1914 is an attempt to understand the global entanglements of the German body and its practices. I am also involved in a project that introduces the field of health humanities into the study of German eighteenth-century culture and society.

Student Research Projects

Was the French Revolution a Religious Revolution? Maximilien Robespierre and the Religion of the Supreme Being, (SOAR, 2021)
Chinese and Indian Medicine and the West, 1500-1900, (Research 2020-2021)
Ballet or Court Dance? Exploring the Foundations of the Classical Ballet in the Court of Louis XIV, 1650-1700, (SOAR, 2020)
Moravians and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, (Research 2019-2020)
Max Schmeling: The Making of a Masculine Icon (1924-1938), (Honors, 2019-2020)
Moravian Life Histories,(SOAR, 2017)
Global Medicine and Sports and Germany, 1500-1900, (Research 2016-2018)
Spaces of Honor, Making of German Civil Society, 1700-1914, (Research 2015-2017)
Practices of Masculinity in Germany, 118-1934, (Honors, 2015-2016)

Current Research

My new project, tentatively titled, The Bodies of the Others. A History of German Sports, Medicine, and Dance in a Global Context, 1700-1914 is an attempt to understand the global entanglements of the German body and its practices.

Selected Publications

Books:

Staging Authority. Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook. Edited by Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrausch, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
Spaces of Honor. Making Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1914. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Feelings Materialized. Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany, eds. Derek Hillard, Russell Spinney, Heikki Lempa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World. Edited by Paul Peucker and Heikki Lempa. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010.
Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007.
Bildung der Triebe: Der deutsche Philanthropismus (1768-1788). (Turku: Turun yliopisto, 1993).

Articles and Chapters:

"Civil Society and the Embodiment of Authority" in Staging Authority. Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe. A Handbook. Edited by Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrauschh, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022, 395-416.
"From Honor to Bildung. Rethinking the Body in Making German Civil Society, 1750-1850" Journal of Modern European History 20 (2022): 44/58.
"The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal" in the Anatomy of the Medical Image. Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today. Edited by Christiane Weller and Axel Fliethmann. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 95-111.
"Emotions and Material Interests in the Sales Talk of German Spa Guides, 1830-1900" in Feelings Materialized. Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany, eds. Derek Hillard, Russell Spinney, Heikki Lempa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 155-67.
"Introduction" in Feelings Materialized. Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany, eds. Derek Hillard, Russell Spinney, Heikki Lempa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020, 1-21.
“Emotions, Gender, and the Body. The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns” in Deborah Simonton, ed. Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. London: Routledge, 2017, 362-73.
“Techniques of Epicurean Masculinity: The Playing Method in German Education, 1774-1820" in Katharine Faull, ed. Masculinity, Senses, Spirit. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011, 81-105.
“Introduction” in Paul Peucker and Heikki Lempa, eds. Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010, 15-30.
“Moravian Education in the Eighteenth-Century Context” in Paul Peucker and Heikki Lempa, eds. Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010, 269-89.
“Patriarchalism and Meritocracy. Evaluating Students in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal.” Paedagogica Historica. International Journal of the History of Education, 6:2006, 727-49.
“The Spa: Emotional Economy and Social Classes in Nineteenth-Century Pyrmont.” Central European History, 1:2002, 37-73.
“Historia, tunteet ja instituutiot. Lähtökohtia tunteiden historiaan” in Timo Soikkanen, ed., JÄLJILLÄ. Kirjoituksia historian ongelmista. Vol. 1. Turku: Kirja-Aurora, 2000, 167-85.
“Bildung der Affekte. Der pädagogische Philanthropismus und die Entstehung des Bildungsbürgers” in Erich Donnert, ed., Europa in der Frühen Neuzeit. Vol. 4. Köln: Böhlau, 1997, 215-28.
“Dietetiikka, affektit ja ruumis. Saksalainen 1700-luvun filantropismi ja kasvatuskäytännön muutos” in Heikki Mikkeli and Timo Joutsivuo (eds.), Terveyden Lähteillä. Länsimaisen Terveyskäsitysten kulttuurihistoriaa. Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1995, 121-49.
“Zur Bildungsgeschichte einer sächsischen Stadt—Wittenberg in den pädagogischen Umwälzungen des 18. Jahrhunderts” in Stefan Oehmig (ed.), 700 Jahre Wittenberg. Lokale, nationale und internationale Wirkungen. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1995, 313-27.
“Peter Villaumes Gedanken von der Bildung der Triebe im Zusammenhang der Entstehung der deutschen Bildung” in Zwischen Wörlitz und Mosigkau. Heft 40 (1994), 24-27.