Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck

Henning Trüper is currently Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor with D. Chakrabarty and S. Subrahmanyam of Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (2015). He is currently concluding work on a book manuscript about the history of orientalist philologies and embarking on a new project about the history of saving lives from shipwreck on the shores of modern Europe.