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Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born on 26 November, 1941 in Berlin, Germany, is a German historian (1941–2023). Discover Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Scholar, historian, writer
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November, 1941
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Date of death 26 March, 2023
Died Place Berlin, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1941

Wolfgang Schivelbusch (26 November 1941 – 26 March 2023) was a German scholar of cultural studies, historian, and author.

Wolfgang Schivelbusch was born on 26 November 1941 in Berlin.

He studied literature, sociology, and philosophy.

1973

He lived in New York from 1973 to 2014, before relocating to Berlin.

Schivelbusch was an independent scholar, not affiliated with any academic institution.

He studied the history of mentalities, perception and cultural history more broadly.

1977

Schivelbusch's 1977 book, ''Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise: Zur Industrialisierung von Raum und Zeit im 19.

1986

Jahrhundert, was published in English as The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century'' in 1986 and updated with a new preface in 2014.

Per the publisher, "Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel."

In other words, Schivelbusch describes how the railroad not only transformed the natural landscape but also our very perceptual experience of nature itself.

Schivelbusch notes that the “annihilation of space and time” was the early nineteenth-century characterization of the effect of railroad travel, due to the speed the new means of transportation was able to achieve.

The diminished time it took to cross the distance between two spatial locations (such as two cities) by railway meant that these locations no longer seemed so distant, even though the distance between them remained unaltered.

Additionally, as the railroad network expanded and its reach lengthened, ever more distant places became newly and widely accessible.

Thus, Schivelbusch describes two contradictory sides of the same process:

"[O]n the one hand, the railroad opened up new spaces that were not as easily accessible before; on the other, it did so by destroying space, namely the space between points. That in-between, or travel space, which it was possible to 'savor' while using the slow, work-intensive eotechnical form of transport, disappeared on the railroads. The railroad knows only points of departure and destination."The denizens of the nineteenth century, who were used to traveling by stagecoach or horseback (and consequently had time to "savor" their journey and contemplate the surrounding landscape), suddenly found themselves remarkably dissociated from their surroundings while sitting in a railcar.

The speed of the train precluded the ability to focus on aspects of the landscape around them for any great length of time, and many early passengers often became physically distressed or even ill as a result of their exposure to the rapid change of impressions while looking out the railcar window.

What Schivelbusch terms the “panoramic gaze”—the ability to look out into the distance and enjoy the passing landscape—had at first to be gradually developed.

The modes of perception formed by traditional travel were thus thrown into crisis by the need for an entirely new perceptual posture, one that could enable enjoyment or at least tolerance of the new landscape created by the railroad.

Such a shift in perception had subtle ramifications in many sectors: for instance, book publishers enjoyed an increased demand for reading material by train travelers, as something they could easily and at length give their attention to and focus their eyes on.

2003

In 2003, he was awarded the Heinrich Mann prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

He has cited Norbert Elias as one of his main influences and inspirations.