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-http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/d/d4/Olaf_Simons.jpg/130px-Olaf_Simons.jpg+:Born in 1961 in Neumünster, Germany, studied in Munich and Canterbury and specialised in book history. [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/c/simons-olaf.html Hompage]
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-born in 1961 in Neumünster, Schleswig Holstein, has studied philosophy and German and English literature at the universities of Munich and Canterbury. His dissertation (published in an extended version under the title ''Marteau’s Europe or the Novel Before it Became Literature'') lead him into the field of bookmarket research. From 1999 to 2002 he was a member of the team employed by the Bertelsmann Commission to investigate into the company’s conduct during the Nazi years — research published in the commission’s report and in a second book on corruption during the last war years co-authored with Hans-Eugen Bühler. Olaf Simons — presently involved in the editing process of Gottlieb Stolle’s 1703/04 travelogue — has been giving seminars as a non-staff lecturer at the University of Munich since 1998 and initiated several web projects.+|valign="top" width="40%"|
-===Publications===+*With Matthias Böhne [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/converter.html The Marteau Currency Converter]
 +*With Anton Kirchhofer [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/resources/novels/market/index.html The Novel in Europe 1670-1730: Market Observations]
 +*[http://www.pierre-marteau.com/resources/munich/munich-bookmarket.html Eine Genealogie der Münchner »Buchhandels-Gerechtsamen«]
-''Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde. Eine Untersuchung des deutschen und englischen Buchangebots der Jahre 1710-1720'' (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001), 765 pp., ills. [http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+52 Publisher's Page]+|-
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-Co-author of: ''Bertelsmann im Dritten Reich'', ed. Saul Friedländer et al. (Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 2002).+<hr>
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-With Hans-Eugen Bühler, ''Die blendenden Geschäfte des Matthias Lackas. Korruptionsermittlungen in der Verlagswelt des Dritten Reichs ''(Köln: Pierre Marteau, 2004), [http://www.pierre-marteau.com/books/lackas-werbung.html Publisher's Page]+
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-&quot;Zum Corpus 'galanter' Romane zwischen Bohse und Schnabel, Talander und Gisander&quot;, in: ''Das Werk Johann Gottfried Schnabels und die Romane und Diskurse des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts'', hrsg. v. Günter Dammann und Dirk Sangmeister (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2004).+
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-&quot;Kulturelle Orientierung um 1700, Linien einer bislang nicht geschriebenen Literaturgeschichte&quot;, ''Scientia Poetica'' 9 (2005), p.39-71.+
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-&quot;Menantes. Dichter zwischen Barock und Aufklärung&quot;, zweiteilige Biographie in ''Palmbaum. Literarisches Journal aus Thüringen'', Heft 1+2 (2005) und Heft 1 (2006).+
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-With Hans Gaab, &quot;Johann Leonhard Rost, 'Romanist' und Astronom&quot;, in ''Astronomie in Nürnberg'' [= ''Nuncius Hamburgensis. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften'', 3, hrsg. Gudrun Wolfschmidt] (Hamburg, 2006), p.127-154.+
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-===Web-projects===+
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-Initiator of [http://www.pierre-marteau.com http://www.pierre-marteau.com] and [http://www.polunbi.de http://www.polunbi.de]+
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-===Contact===+
Dr. Olaf Simons<br> Dr. Olaf Simons<br>
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Fax: +49-1212 584 591 028<br> Fax: +49-1212 584 591 028<br>
Email: [mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com] Email: [mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com]
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Born in 1961 in Neumünster, Germany, studied in Munich and Canterbury and specialised in book history. Hompage

Dr. Olaf Simons
c/o Böhne
Wageneggerstr. 3
81669 München
 
Tel: +49-179 51 96 880
Tel: +49-89 25 00 79 32
Fax: +49-1212 584 591 028
Email: mailto:olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com