About Paola Mayer Paola Mayer is associate professor of European studies and German at the University of Guelph and author of Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme: Theosophy, Hagiography, Literature. Books by Paola Mayer The Aesthetics of Fear in German Romanticism by (author) Paola Mayer Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme Theosophy, Hagiography, Literature by (author) Paola Mayer