Änne Bäumer

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Änne Bäumer-Schleinkofer (* 1957 ) is a biology historian . She was a professor for the history of natural sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Career

Bäumer studied classical philology and mathematics in Mainz and Vienna and did her doctorate in 1981 at the University of Mainz with a thesis on Seneca, after which she worked for a year as a research assistant at the German Copernicus Research Center. From 1982 to 1985 she studied biology with a scholarship from the Volkswagenwerk Foundation and received her doctorate in 1985 with a thesis on the development of the chicken in the egg . From 1986 to 1987 she was a research assistant at Fritz Krafft in the mathematics department, where she continued to work on the Copernikus edition , and in 1987 she was appointed university assistant for the history of natural sciences. In 1991 she obtained her habilitation in the history of natural sciences and in 1992 was appointed professor at the University of Mainz.

Her research focus was initially in the area of ​​the history of the natural sciences, here in the area of ​​embryology, biology and her school lessons at the time of National Socialism and the history of the observation of nature.

After her lectureship ended, she became chairwoman of the Deutsche Hildegard von Bingen Society, which was founded at the end of 1998 . In 1999 she repeatedly turned to the Auxiliary Bishop Franziskus Eisenbach from Mainz , whom she visited regularly until January 2000. Her urgent wish to get a job in the diocese service at a Hildegard von Bingen research institute at the University of Mainz was supported by Eisenbach. But the Bishop of Mainz, Karl Lehmann , clearly rejected the establishment of the institute.

In September 2000, Eisenbach was accused by Bäumer and her husband, the mathematics professor Gerhard Schleinkofer, of having unlawfully carried out a major exorcism and sexual acts on her. She reported him for assault and sexual abuse as part of a pastoral care relationship. The Mainz diocese leadership denied the exorcism, but admitted "healing and liberation prayers". In April 2001, the Mainz public prosecutor closed the proceedings against Eisenbach for lack of suspicion. An enforcement action brought by the plaintiff at the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz was dismissed in November 2001. Bäumer also brought lawsuits against the Vatican (for violating the secrecy of confession and the celibacy law ); Even there, after a preliminary investigation, no criminal case against Eisenbach was opened. Bäumer processed her experiences in a book in which she also criticized the network of clerics , "who supposedly have nothing else in mind than helping people in distress and crises of faith."

Publications (selection)

  • The human beast. Seneca's theory of aggression, its philosophical preliminary stages and its literary effects . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1982. (approved dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Mainz)
  • Development of the chicken in the egg. A classic object for observing nature from antiquity to modern times. (Dissertation Mainz 1985)
  • Nazi biology. Hirzel / Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8047-1127-8 .
  • History of Biology Volume 1 .: Biology in antiquity up to the Renaissance Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, ISBN 3-631-43312-3 .
  • History of Biology Volume 2: Zoology of the Renaissance - Renaissance of Zoology Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, ISBN 3-631-43313-1 .
  • Biology lessons in the Third Reich. Nazi biology and school. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-631-45047-8 (also in English).
  • Biology under the swastika. Biology and School in the Third Reich. In: Universitas . Volume 47, No. 547, January 1992, pp. 48-61.
  • History of Biology Volume 3 .: 17th and 18th centuries. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1996, ISBN 3-631-30317-3 .
  • Bibliography of the history of biology / Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Biologie. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1997, ISBN 3-631-32261-5 .
  • Know the ways: the life and work of Hildegard von Bingen; a monograph on her 900th birthday. 2nd, corrected edition. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, ISBN 3-631-36497-0 .
  • Hildegard von Bingen in her environment - mysticism and forms of vision in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Catholicism and Protestantism in Dialogue. Religion-und-Kultur-Verlag, Würzburg, 2001.
  • The professor and the auxiliary bishop: Faith, love, exorcism - the strange healing methods of the Catholic Church Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, 2003.
  • as editor: The West Left and the GDR: Journalism, Jurisprudence and the Influence of the Stasi in the GDR and the FRG. Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author information from Peter Lang Verlag ( Memento from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Curriculum Vitae at Research Rhineland-Palatinate
  3. ^ Diocese of Mainz: Allegations covered Paulinus Wochenzeitung in the Diocese of Trier No. 39, September 30, 2000
  4. ↑ a b The professor and the auxiliary bishop Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger August 29, 2001
  5. ↑ In the name of the Lord? In: Stern. 36/2001, August 30, 2001, pp. 40ff.
  6. ↑ The cross with the drive. In: Stern. 44/2000, October 26, 2000, p. 66.
  7. ^ Press release of the Diocese of Mainz from September 15, 2000.
  8. ↑ The wicked woman and the dear bishop? In: Publik-Forum. 4/2002, February 2002.
  9. ↑ Press release of the Mainz public prosecutor's office of April 11, 2001.
  10. ↑ The bad woman ...? In: Publik-Forum. Issue 4/2002, February 2002.
  11. ↑ Former auxiliary bishop tries a new beginning far from Mainz cathedral. In: FAZ. May 30, 2003.
  12. ↑ Brief discussion ( Memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Documentation of a symposium, 26. – 27. May 2005, University of Mainz
personal data
SURNAME Baumer, Änne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäumer-Schleinkofer, Änne (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biology historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957