Daniel Göske new Vice President of the Union of Academies

The Presidium of the Union of Academies unanimously elected the theologian and historian Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies, President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, as the new President at a closed meeting in Göttingen on May 5, 2022. Alongside Daniel Göske, the new vice president is the mechanical engineer Prof. Dr. Reiner Anderl, president of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz.

The new leadership team will be at the helm of the Union of Academies for three years. Together, they declared the goal of sustainably increasing the visibility of the Union of Academies in the German science system.

Daniel Göske was born in Lüneburg, Germany, in 1960. He studied English/American and German language and literature in Göttingen, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, and at Pennsylvania State University, USA. After his state examinations and doctorate in Göttingen, he went to Princeton for two years, and after his habilitation in Göttingen, to the Technical University of Braunschweig for three years as a professor. Since 2001 he has been teaching at the University of Kassel. His scholarly interests include English-language classics of the 19th and 20th centuries, literary translation, transnational reception history, and the relationship between literature and religion. He is a full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, a corresponding member of the Mainz Academy, and since 2014 a full member of the Göttingen Academy, of which he has been president since January 2022.

The Union of Academies is the association of eight German science academies. In total, the member academies unite more than 2,000 scientists from various disciplines who are among the nationally and internationally outstanding representatives of their disciplines. Together, they are committed to scientific exchange, ensuring scientific excellence and promoting young researchers.