Professoren in Stammbüchern – Stammbücher von Professoren. Rollenkonstellationen und inszenatorische Praxis

Abstract

This study focuses on university professors as owners and inscribers in the autograph culture of the early modern period. It contains an analysis of autograph books (friendship books, alba amicorum) of professors as well as of professor inscriptions in student autograph books. It takes note of the form of the inscriptions, accompanying illustrations, and the role of these dedications in the communication practices within the academic setting. The study depicts autograph books as a distinctive form of social self-presentation closely bound to the academic and scholarly environment.

Keywords

• university professors
• students
• autograph books (friendship books, alba amicorum)
• communication
• self-presentation