Andreas Kleinert (science historian)

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Andreas Kleinert (born October 16, 1940 in Opole ) is a German historian of science specializing in the general history of science and the history of physics.

Life

Kleinert first studied Romance and classical philology in Göttingen, Besançon, Bologna and Kiel. He passed the state examination in Kiel in 1965. He then went on to study physics at the TU Berlin and RWTH Aachen , where he graduated in 1970. In 1974 he obtained his doctorate in the history of natural sciences from the University of Stuttgart. phil.

Kleinert first taught between 1971 and 1979 at what was then the University of Applied Sciences for Libraries (today: University of the Media ) in Stuttgart, where he was appointed professor in 1975. In 1980 he was appointed professor for the history of natural sciences with a focus on the history of physics at the University of Hamburg . In 1995, he accepted a professorship for the history of natural sciences in the physics department at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , where he had also been a member of the history, philosophy and social sciences department since June 2000.

Kleinert held several teaching assignments abroad, such as a semester at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 1981/1982 , in 1988, 1992 and 2006 at Smith College (Northampton, MA, USA) and in 1995 at the University of Geneva . He has been a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina since 1998 ; He is also a member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences . Between 1998 and 2006 he was a member of the board of directors of the "Interdisciplinary Center for Research into the European Enlightenment" at the Martin Luther University and at the Collaborative Research Center 482 "Event Jena-Weimar. Culture around 1800" Head of the subproject "Structures of Nature Research in Jena ". Kleinert has been the "general editor" of Series IVA (letter edition) of the Opera omnia by Leonhard Euler since 2006 , and from 2007 to 2010 he was chairman of the "History of Science and Medicine" section of the Leopoldina.

Publications (selection)

  • Andreas Kleinert: "A tangible historical lie". How Martin Luther was made the opponent of the Copernican world system. In: Reports on the History of Science 26 (2003), pp. 101–111.
  • Rainer Enskat, Andreas Kleinert: Education and Science: Meeting; from January 25 to 26, 2007 in Halle (Saale) , meeting organized by the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft 2011, ISBN 978-3-8047-3029-8 , series: German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina : Acta historica Leopoldina; No. 57.
  • Andreas Kleinert: "There is no censorship". Experience with German-German licensed editions of books on the history of science . In: Connected by life events. Ceremony for Dorothea Kuhn on her 90th birthday on March 11, 2013. Edited by Jutta Eckle and Dietrich von Engelhardt. Halle and Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8047-3159-2 , series: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina: Acta historica Leopoldina; No. 62, pp. 413-422.
  • Andreas Kleinert: A hundred years of Russian-Swiss collaboration on the Euler Complete Edition. In: German-Russian cooperation between scientific and cultural institutions from the 18th to the 20th century. Edited by Ingrif Kästner and Michael Schippan. Aachen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8440-5138-4 , series: European Science Relations; No. 14, pp. 213-224.

Festschriften

  • Susan Splinter (Ed.): Physica et historia: Festschrift for Andreas Kleinert for his 65th birthday , Stuttgart: Wiss. Verl.-Gesellschaft 2005, ISBN 3-8047-2259-8 , series: Acta historica Leopoldina; No. 45.
  • Beate Ceranski, Florian Hars & Gerhard Wiesenfeldt (eds.) On the shoulders of dwarfs: essays on the limits of physics and biography . Berlin: ERS-Verlag, 2005

literature

  • Beate Ceranski and Dieter Hoffmann : Andreas Kleinert on his 65th birthday , in: NTM 13 (2005) 258–259.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Andreas Kleinert (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Kleinert, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole