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Who is Jan Assmann?

Johann Christoph " Jan " Assmann (born 7 July 1938) is a German Egyptologist . Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen. In 1966–67, he was a fellow of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, where he continued as an independent scholar from 1967 to 1971.

Who is Paul Assmann & what did he do?

He was then named an Honorary Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Constance, where he is today. In the 1990s, Assmann and his wife Aleida Assmann developed a theory of cultural and communicative memory that has received much international attention.

Is Assmann a history of Remembrance?

By affording us glimpses, detailed to be sure, of the human structure of memory as revealed mainly in writing, Assmann’s studies, though somewhat dated now, nonetheless can be viewed as a history of the concept of the social and political imagination of remembrance.

Who are Assmann's predecessors – Maurice Halbwachs & Jan Vansina?

A different approach is necessary. Assmann commences his work by providing the reader with his two main predecessors, Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Vansina. By and large, it is the former that occupies Assmann’s time.