Der Perlentaucher unter den Buchläden Eichendorff21

**FRANS H. VAN EEMEREN** is President of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) and the International Learned Institute of Argumentation Studies (ILIAS), Emeritus Professor of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association (U.S.) and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lugano (Switzerland). He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam and Guest Professor at Leiden University, Jiangsu University, Sun- yat Sen University and Zhejiang University. Van Eemeren is a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion. He is the founder of the Pragma-Dialectical theory of argumentation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal _Argumentation_ , the _Journal of Argumentation in Context_ and the accompanying book series Library of Argumentation and Argumentation in Context. The monographs he (co)authored include _Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions_ (1984), _Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies_ (1992), _Reconstructing Argumentative Discourse_ (1993), _A Systematic Theory of Argumentation_ (2004), _Argumentative Indicators in Discourse_ (2007), _Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness_ (2009), _Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse_ (2010), _Handbook of Argumentation Theory_ (2014), _Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse_ (2015) and _Prototypical Argumentative Patterns in Discourse_ (2017).