Friedrich Naumann (historian)

Friedrich Naumann (2010)

Friedrich Naumann (born April 22, 1940 in Berthelsdorf ) is a German historian . From 1993 to 2005 he was professor of science , technology and university history at the Technical University of Chemnitz .

Life

After attending school and doing military service, Naumann first completed specialist training as a cement worker and shaft furnace burner. He completed his studies at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1962 as a qualified mineralogist. He then worked as an assistant at the information processing chair there, until he was appointed director of the computer center at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1974. In 1975 Naumann was introduced to the topic A contribution to the optimal design of data provision with special consideration of the use of terminals for Dr. phil. PhD . As the holder of an apprenticeship at the Center for the History of Technical Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden , Naumann dealt intensively with the history of computer science from 1979. In 1984 he submitted his dissertation B on the topic of the genesis of information processing as a technical science discipline , with which he received the title of Dr. sc. phil. attained. After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the Senate of TU Dresden gave him the title of Dr. phil. habil. awarded. He also subsequently wrote numerous magazine articles and books on the history of computer science.

From 1990 to 1992 Naumann was chairman of the Saxon State Association for Local History and Monument Preservation. 1992 he was appointed to the Presidium Working Group on the History of Computer Science of the Society for Computer Science . From 1993 until his retirement in 2005, Naumann was Professor of Science, Technology and University History at Chemnitz University of Technology. The professorship was not subsequently filled. He is also a member of the Historical Commission of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, the Association for Saxon State History , the Chemnitz History Association and the Georgius Agricola Research Center in Chemnitz.

Naumann also appears as an amateur jazz musician. In the 1970s he was the guitarist and bassist of the Freiberg Jazz Quintet and in 1972 was one of the founders of the Freiberg Jazz Days. From 1979 to 1990 he played guitar, tenor banjo and double bass in the Roberts Jazz Society. He currently plays as a bassist for the Chemnitz Jazz Company.

Works

• The genesis of information processing as a technical science discipline. Dissertation (B), Dresden 1984
• Georgius Agricola - 500 years: Scientific conference from March 25-27, 1994 in Chemnitz, Free State of Saxony. Basel, Boston, Berlin 1994 (editor). ISBN 3-7643-5109-8
• Carl Julius von Bach (1847–1931). Pioneer - designer - researcher - teacher - visionary. Stuttgart 1998 (editor). ISBN 3-87919-260-X
• Saxon-Bohemian Relations in the 16th Century. Chemnitz 2001 (editor). ISBN 3-936241-00-7
• From the abacus to the internet: the history of computer science. Primus-Verlag Darmstadt 2001. ISBN 3-89678-224-X
• Biographies on Howard Hathaway Aiken, Charles Babbage, Carl Julius von Bach, Herman Hollerith, John Napier, Adam Ries, Wilhelm Schickard, Claude Elwood Shannon, Alan Mathison Turing, Norbert Wiener. In: Lexicon of eminent natural scientists. Edited by D. Hoffmann, H. Leitko et al. S. Müller-Witte. Heidelberg, Berlin 2003, 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0316-2 (Vol. 1), ISBN 3-8274-0401-0 (Vol. 2), ISBN 3-8274-0402-9 (Vol. 3)
• Computer science in the GDR - a balance sheet. Proceedings for the symposia October 7th to 9th, 2004 in Chemnitz, May 11th to 12th, 2006 in Erfurt. Edited by Friedrich Naumann a. Gabriele Schade . Bonn 2006. ISBN 978-3-88579-420-2
• Georgius Agricola: mountain scholar, naturalist, humanist. Erfurt: Sutton, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86680-214-8
• Photo album of a mineralogical journey through Europe (Pictures: Jörg Wittig) Freiberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-86012-351-5
• Dějiny informatiky - Od abaku k internetu. Publishing house ACADEMIA. Prague 2009. ISBN 978-80-200-1730-7
• Chemnitz is to be reckoned with - from calculating machines to supercomputers (Ed.) Sächsisches Industriemuseum / IWTG TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitz 2012. ISBN 978-3-934512-24-5
• 175 years of technical mechanics : A contribution to the anniversary »175 years of Chemnitz University of Technology«. Chemnitz: Universitätsverlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-944640-38-9 ( full text in Qucosa )
• Michail Vasil'evic Lomonosov: Writings on geology and mining and metallurgy (1742–1765). Edited and commented by Friedrich Naumann. Verlag De Gruyter 2017. ISBN 978-3-11-042720-2
• Georgius Agricola - a giant of thinking power, passion and character, of versatility and erudition. Chemnitz 2018. ISBN 978-3-96063-015-9

literature

• Michael Hascher, Stephan Luther, Dagmar Szöllösi: Saxony in the history of science and technology. Festschrift for Friedrich Naumann. Freiberg research books D218, 2005 ISBN 3-86012-265-7
• Reiner Groß : Prof. Dr. oec. et Dr. phil. habil. Friedrich Naumann, 65 years. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 51 (2005) 4, p. 412 ISSN  0486-8234

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Naumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Friedrich Naumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Friedrich Naumann in the Saxon Bibliography
• Short biography

Individual evidence

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