Amaury Coulomb
VITA
Biografie
Amaury Coulomb is a graduate of ENS Ulm in Paris, agrégé d’histoire, and completed a Master’s degree in German-French history between EHESS and the University of Heidelberg. Since 2024, he has been a doctoral student in a cotutelle programme between EHESS and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau under the supervision of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Martin Bemmann.
Mutterinstitut:
EHESS
FORSCHUNG
Forschungsthemen
Environmental history, energy history, history of technology, economic history, Germany in the 20th century
Titel der Dissertation:
"Das hölzerne Zeitalter". Modernising timber in Germany (1920s-1970s)
Institution der Dissertation:
EHESS
Betreuer*in
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Publikationen
« Nelo Magalhães, Accumuler du béton, tracer des routes. Une histoire environnementale des grandes infrastructures » [recension], Technology & Culture, vol. 66, n°4, octobre 2025.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Jedermann. Le mystère de l’homme riche (trad. A. Coulomb), Paris, Isidore Éditions, avril 2025.
Amaury Coulomb, Amaury de Coudenhove, CR – « Loup, qui es-tu ? Les enjeux de la présence du loup en France », Jeudis d’actualité critique Séminaire de l’École Normale Supérieure, 15 décembre 2022.
« Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Fabien Locher, Les Révoltes du Ciel », Le Grand Continent [comptes rendus], 26 décembre 2020.
Forschungsprojekt
His research project explores the modernity of wood in 20th-century Germany from three perspectives:
- the industrialisation of forestry from the 1920s onwards, between the history of technology and environmental history: mechanisation of felling, skidding and transport, ‘chemification’, organisation of forestry work.
- a comparison between several capital-intensive modes of production in the timber industry (Nazism/FRG/GDR), between economic history and material history (social metabolism).
- the development of the myth of a ‘new age of wood’ in the service of German power, between political history and cultural history.