Tatiana V. Artemyeva, PhD, Dr.Hab., is a professor at the Department of Theory and History of Culture, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interest is the history of ideas in Russia during the Enlightenment, and includes philosophy, utopianism, the philosophy of history, elite-studies and emblem- studies. She is co-editor of The Philosophical Age almanac and the director of research programs at the St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas. She has been the head or a collaborator of more than fifty research and conference projects supported by grants from national and international foundations. In 2010–
2012 she was a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has also been a fellow of many other universities and research programs in Europe and the USA. The author’s e-mail for correspondence is: tatart(at)mail.ru
Robert Collis, PhD, is a Docent in Early Modern Russian History at the University of Turku and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. He is also a former Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Collis is currently researching the topic of Western esotericism and the Russian nobility in the long eighteenth century (1689–1825). He has published widely on various aspects of Western esotericism in early modern Russia. The author’s e-mail address for correspondence is: r.collis(at)sheffield.
ac.uk
Krisztina Kulcsár, PhD, is archivist-in-chief at the National Archives of Hungary (Budapest) and is in charge of the judicial court papers as well as the documents of the Hungarian central authorities from the 18th and 19th centuries. She is also one of the editors of the new, revised version of the Hungarian historical bibliography, which is entitled Introduction to the Sources of and Literature on the History of Hungary and is published by the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her PhD dissertation, entitled The Travels of Emperor Joseph II in Hungary, Transylvania, Slavonia and the Banat of Temes in 1768–
1773, appeared as a monograph in 2004. Her research interests include the administrative and cultural history of the 18th century, with special reference to Hungarian–Habsburg relations and particularly the life of Prince Albert of Saxony-Teschen and his time as governor of Hungary (1765–1781) . The author’s email address for correspondence is: kulcsar.krisztina(at)mnl.gov.hu
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Mikhail I. Mikeshin, Professor, Doctor, studies the history of ideas in Europe and Russia in the 18th and the 19th centuries. His main spheres of research interests are Scottish philosophy of the Enlightenment, the history of the Russian nobility in these centuries, history and the methodology of the sciences. He is the author and co-author of more than a hundred published works, including seven monographs. He is the co- editor of The Philosophical Age almanac, the Director of the St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas (http://ideashistory.org.ru) and the Head of the Philosophy Department at The University of Mines, St.
Petersburg, Russia. He has led or been a collaborator of more than fifty national and international research projects. He has taught and worked as a researcher at many universities and institutions in Europe, the USA, and Russia. The author’s email address for correspondence is: mic(at)spmi.ru
Hanns-Peter Neumann is research associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies in Halle (Saale), Germany, and a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. His area of expertise is the history of philosophy and science from the Early Modern Period to Modernity. Neumann’s research interests include Enlightenment philosophies, problems and methods of the historiography of philosophy, Leibniz and his reception (especially of the Monadology), the interconnection between sociology, natural sciences, and philosophy in the 19th century, and philosophical critical editions. He is currently preparing a critical edition of the correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel.
Among his book-length publications are: Monaden im Diskurs. Monas, Monaden, Monadologie, 1600 bis 1770 (Stuttgart: 2013). The author’s e-mail for correspondence is: hapsen(at)web.de
Mathias Persson, PhD in the history of science and ideas from Uppsala University, is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University. His research interests have largely revolved around the transnational connections between Göttingen and Sweden during the eighteenth century and how the Swedish realm was envisioned in German lands at the time.
More recently, his focus has shifted to the social and political imagination in the 1700s. His present research project explores the political outlook of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, from its founding in 1739 to the assassination of King Gustav III in 1792. The author’s email address for correspondence is:
Mathias.Persson(at)ekhist.uu.se
Henrika Tandefelt, PhD, is Adjunct professor of History at the University of Helsinki. In the spring term 2015 she holds a research fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. Her areas of research interest include cultural historical approaches to the history of politics, history of rhetoric and eloquence, history of private life. In her PhD dissertation (2007) she studied the 18th century monarchy and the art of ruling. Her recent research focuses o the 19th century family and gender, private correspondence and the Finnish nobility in a time of social and political change. Recent publications include articles on the manorial culture in 19th century Finland and the co-edited digital edition of letters and art of the Finnish artist Albert Edelfelt (http://edelfelt.sls.fi/). The author’s email address for correspondence is: henrika.
tandefelt(at)helsinki.fi
Nick Treuherz is a tutor in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester.
He is also a Research Associate with the Voltaire Foundation, working on the critical edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire. His AHRC-funded PhD thesis examined cultural transfer between France and Britain during the eighteenth century, particularly focussing on ideas of materialism, and the reception of French philosophes. His research interests lie in the intellectual history of the Enlightenment. The author’s email address for correspondence is: ntreuherz(at)yahoo.co.uk
Alexander Woronzoff-Dashkoff teaches courses in Russian language and literature. He received a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. He regularly offers courses in 19th- and 20th century Russian literature, as well as women’s autobiographies. His first book was entitled Andrey Bely’s Petersburg, James Joyce’s Ulysses and the Symbolist Movement in Literature. Subsequently after publishing scores of articles, he has been devoted primarily to the life and works of E.R. Dashkova. He edited a collection of essays focusing on her life and works at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the French, authoritative edition of E.R. Dashkova’s Mon histoire (with C. Woronzoff-Dashkoff and C. Leguis) at L’Harmattan. His publications include the annotation of her autobiography in English (Duke University Press); and writing her biography Dashkova: A Life of Influence and Exile (American Philosophical Society):
the Russian translation of the biography was published in Moscow by Molodaia Gvardia in 2010 (Zhizn zamechatelnykh liudei) and he is currently completing her brother’s biography (S.R. Vorontsov, Minister to the Court of St. James’s). The author’s email address for correspondence is: aworonzo(at)smith.edu
