Dr. Alexej Lochmatow

alexej.lochmatow@uni-erfurt.de

Sprecher der Forschungsstelle PECEE (History Department)

Contact

C18 – teaching building 4 / C18.01.44

Office hours

nach Vereinbarung

Visiting address

Campus
History Department
C18 – teaching building 4
Alfred-Weber-Platz 4
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
History Department
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Research Associate (Professorship for History of Science) (Faculty of Philosophy)

Contact

C18 – teaching building 4 / C18.01.44

Office hours

on appointment

Visiting address

Campus
Faculty of Philosophy
C18 – teaching building 4
Alfred-Weber-Platz 4
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Philosophy
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Dr. Alexej Lochmatow

Bio

2021 PhD from the University of Cologne (cotutelle with the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences); certificate „Doctor Europaeus“

2018 M. A. in the History of Knowledge from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

2017 M. A. in Cultural and Intellectual History between East and West from the University of Cologne

 

Relevant Experience

01/2023 – Walter Benjamin Fellow at the Chair for the History of Science, University of Erfurt

10/2021– 12/2022 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair for the History of Science, University of Erfurt

03/2021– 09/2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Erfurt

04/2018–03/2021 EUmanities Research Fellow at the Graduate School for the Humanities a.r.t.e.s. (The University of Cologne; the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713600) 

10/2018– Associate Fellow at the Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung

01/2020–02/2020 Chercheur invité at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)

09/2017–12/2017 Assistant researcher at the Center for the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge (Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

 

Research Project

Research Project: The Bodies of Intelligences and their Environments

The project explores various discourses of intelligence as reflection of diverse social and political theories. The focus of the project lies on the collective dimensions of ‘intelligence’, i.e. the social and political ‘bodies’ that have been conceived as bearers of ‘intelligence.’ In various contexts, the entire humanity, civilization, a state, a nation, a society, a social class, individual professions or gender-related groups could become such 'bodies' of intelligence. Dealing with these issues, the project focuses on the sources in German, Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Research Areas

  • Modern History

  • History of Knowledge 

  • History of Science and Scholarship

  • History of Intelligence Research

Selected Publications

Monographs

Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945-1956, London & New York: Routledge, 2023 Link 

Articles/Chapters

  • 2025 (accepted for publication) The Masters and Victims of Partisanship: Arnošt Kolman and Adam Schaff on the crossroads of partisan science, in Science in Context Vol. 37 (2)
  • 2025 (in print) Sovietization, in: Katrin Steffen, Maciej Górny, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk (eds.), Routledge History of Poland, London/New York: Routledge.
  • 2023 Review: Blut und Metall. Die transnationalen Wissensräume von Ludwik Hirszfeld und Jan Czochralski im 20. Jahrhundert Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021, in: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. Link
  • 2022  ‘Periodisations’ in Intellectual History: On the Plurality of Continuities in the post-war Public Debates of Poland, in: Jade McGlynn, Lucian George (Eds.): Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture, Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 149 – 174. Link
  • 2021 Review: Izabela Wagner, Bauman: A Biography, Cambridge: Polity Press 2020, in: Acta Poloniae Historica, Vol. 123, pp. 353 – 362. Link
  • 2021 The Academic Virtues in Public Discussion: Adam Schaff and the Campaign against the Lvov-Warsaw School in Post-War Poland, in: Studia Historiae Scientiarum, Vol. 20, pp. 711–753. Link
  • 2020 Auf dem Weg zur „Einheit“: Józef Chałasiński und die Suche nach einer „erlaubten“ Genealogie der Soziologie im Nachkriegspolen (1945–1951), in: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Vol. 28 (4), pp. 519–546. Link
  • 2019 The „Scientific View“ of the Intelligentsia: The Literary Roots of Scholarly Public Debates in Post-War Poland (1946–1948), in: HISTORYKA. Studia Metodologiczne Vol. 49, pp. 77–100 Link
  • 2019 Review: Science Overcoming Borders, hrsg. von Věra Dvořáčková, Martin Franc. Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR: Praha, 2018., in: Acta Poloniae Historica, Vol. 119, S. 350–357. Link
  • 2019 Theory in Action: French Personalism in the Public Debates of Post-war Poland, in: Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti XXV, pp. 277–293. Link

  • 2019 Conceptualising „Anti-Zionism“: Piasecki’s Group as an Intellectual Resource for the 1968 Antisemitic Campaign in People’s Poland, in: Europa Orientalis. Studi e ricerche sui paesi dell'Est europeo, 38 (2019), pp. 103–118. Link

     

 

Public Outreach

An Interview for New Books Network (Link)

Short lectures for the German Historical Institute Warsaw  "Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland" (Links: I, II III)

"Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination" for the Blog "History of Knowledge: Research, Resources, and Perspectives" (Link)

HIRA Book Launch: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland (Link)