马蒂亚斯.米德尔(Mathias Middell)是德国莱比锡大学全球与欧洲研究学院院长,德国“跨民族史”专业论坛①及全球史期刊《比较》②的主编。1990年代初期他将发端于法国巴黎的文化交流研究引入德国莱比锡,以“密切相关”和“彼此互动”的思路来解释18世纪以来德国和法国社会的变 Mathias Middell is chief editor of Dean of Global and European Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, a forum for cross-national history in Germany, and a comparison of the world’s historical journals. In the early 1990’s, he introduced the study of cultural exchanges originating in Paris, France, to Leipzig, Germany, and explained the changes of German and French society since the 18th century with the ideas of “close correlation” and “interaction with each other”