Anke te Heesen

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Anke te Heesen (* 1965 ) is a German science historian and curator. She teaches the history of science with a focus on the history of education and the organization of knowledge at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Anke te Heesen studied cultural education (today: cultural studies) at the University of Hildesheim and graduated with a thesis on Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne picture atlas . She dedicated her dissertation at the University of Oldenburg to an educational encyclopedia of the 18th century. She worked as a research assistant and curator at the European Enlightenment Research Center , Potsdam (1996/1997), the German Hygiene Museum Dresden (1998/1999) and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (1999-2006). From 2006 to 2008 she was the director of the museum at the University of Tübingen (MUT), which is currently being established, before taking on a professorship for empirical cultural studies / museum studies and cultural-historical material and image research at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for empirical cultural studies at the University of Tübingen in 2008 changed. Stays abroad took her to the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland and France. Since 2011, te Heesen has been the successor to Rüdiger vom Bruch, who holds the chair for the history of science at the Institute for History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In the 2019/20 academic year she was the managing director of the institute. In 2019 she was elected to the review board for the history of science of the German Research Foundation .

Currently (2020) she is working on a history of the research interview in which she examines the Sources for History of Quantum Physics interview project led by Thomas S. Kuhn .

Awards

Fonts

Monographs

  • The world box. The story of an educational encyclopedia from the 18th century . Wallstein, Göttingen 1997, ISBN 3-89244-224-X ; English translation: The world in a box: the story of an eighteenth-century picture encyclopedia . Chicago University Press, Chicago 2002, ISBN 0-226-32287-4 .
  • The newspaper clipping. A modern paper object . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-16584-9 ; English translation: The Newspaper Clipping. A modern paper object . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2014.
  • Theories of the museum. Introduction . Junius-Verlag, Hamburg 2012 (3rd edition 2015), ISBN 978-3-88506-698-9 . Translated into Polish (2016) and Korean (2018).

Editing

  • together with Emma Spary: collecting as knowledge. Collecting and its significance in the history of science , 2001 ( ISBN 3-89244-482-X )
  • as guest editor and co-author: Cut and paste around 1900. The newspaper clipping in the sciences , Kaleidoskopien, issue 4/2002. Sales Vice Versa (Berlin) 2002 ( ISSN  1432-0118 )
  • together with Anette Michels: open / close. The Cabinet in the Sciences , 2007 ( ISBN 3-05-004359-8 )
  • together with Susanne Padberg: Musée Sentimental 1979. An exhibition concept , 2011 ( ISBN 978-3-7757-3017-4 )
  • together with Margarete Vöhringer: Science in the Museum - Exhibition in the Laboratory . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-86599-223-9 ).

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Heesen, Anke te
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965