Martin UrmannMartin Urmann is an independent scholar who most recently worked at the CRC ‘Episteme in Motion’ (Freie Universität Berlin). His research interests include the history of rhetoric, the intellectual history of the early modern republic of letters and he poetry of decadence. He is the author of ‘L’Olympe même de nos lumières est jaloux’: die Preisfragen der französischen Akademien (1670-1794) als Medium der Wissensreflexion (Wiesbaden, 2025) and Dekadenz. Oberfläche und Tiefe in der Kunst um 1900 (Wien, Berlin, 2016). Read More Read Less