Michael Hagner

Michael Hagner 2012 in Frankfurt am Main

Michael Hagner (born January 29, 1960 in Bochum ) is a German doctor and science historian .

Life

After graduating from the Leibniz Gymnasium in Dortmund in 1978 , Hagner first studied philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and then from 1980 to 1986 medicine and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . After stints in London, Lübeck and Göttingen, Hagner worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin. After visiting professorships in Salzburg, Tel Aviv and Frankfurt am Main and at the Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich, he has been a full professor for science studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) since 2003 .

Michael Hagner is a member of the Center for the History of Knowledge . He became known for his work on the history of brain research . He is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union , which was published at the end of November 2016.

honors and awards

• Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (1995)
• Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2000)
• Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose from the Darmstadt German Academy for Language and Poetry (2008)
• Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (2008)
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2010)
• Full member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
• Science Award of the Aby Warburg Foundation (2014)
• Martin Wagner Medal (2014)

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• On the history of light in the eye and the physiology of the pressure phosphene in relation to the respective contemporary visual theories. Dissertation FU Berlin 1987.
• Homo cerebralis. The change from the soul organ to the brain. Insel, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-458-34364-4 .
• Ingenious brains. On the history of elite brain research. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-649-0 .
• The mind at work. Historical studies on brain research. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0064-4 .
• The Head of House. The story of a criminal case. Education, sexuality and the media around 1900. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42204-5 .
• To the matter of the book . Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-8353-1547-1 .
• Against populism. Paul Feyerabend's Dadaist Epistemology. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen 14 (2017), pp. 369–375.
• Die Lust am Buch , Berlin: Insel Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-19464-4 .

As editor

• The wrong body. Contributions to a history of monstrosities. Wallstein, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89244-073-5 .
• Ecce cortex. Contributions to the history of the modern brain. Wallstein, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-89244-360-2 .
• Views of the history of science . Fischer, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3-596-15261-5 .
• with Anke te Heesen and Candida Höfer : Berlin Wilhelmstrasse 44 . König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-656-3 .
• Einstein on the Beach. The physicist as a phenomenon . Fischer, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-596-16515-6 .
• with Manfred D. Laubichler: The high seat of knowledge. The general as a scientific value . Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-935300-79-4 .
• with Erich Hörl : The transformation of the human. Contributions to the cultural history of cybernetics. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-29448-2 .
• Science and democracy. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-26047-0 .
• since 2005 co-editor of After Work. Zurich Yearbook for the History of Knowledge - Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Hagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Hagner on the ETH Zurich website
• On the politics of brain research , interview with Michael Hagner and Petra Gehring , Sic et Non, 2006 (audio / video / Flash and PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 3rd edition (1998/1999). P. 376.