Anna Echterhölter

Anna Maria Echterhölter (born December 12, 1973 in Göttingen ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1980 to 1993 she attended schools in Göttingen , stays abroad in Pau , Melbourne and Dnipropetrovsk . From 1994 to 2001 she studied modern German literature and cultural studies in Berlin (FU), initially with a minor in physics. Stays abroad and internships: Goldsmiths, University of London (1998), University of Katowice (1999), Goethe-Institut , Manila (1996), text + criticism, Göttingen (1997), student radio “Dahlemer Diwan” (Inst. AVL, FU- Berlin), Berliner Rundfunk (1994). After completing her doctorate in 2009 on "Epistemic Values ​​in Obituaries of Natural Scientists 1711–1860", Predoc grant from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Dept. II and III 2007), teaching assignments at Humboldt University , employee at the Academy of Sciences, doctoral grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2004–2006), assistant to the curators and project manager at the science and art exhibition of the Volkswagen Foundation »Science + Fiction. Between Nanoworld and Global Culture "(2001–2002) she was a research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin from 2009 to 2016 , initially 50% at the Cluster of Excellence" TOPOI - The Formation and Transformation of Spaces and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations " , previously in the CRC “Transformations of Antiquity” (2008–2009). In 2014 she was a junior professor in the History of Human Sciences at Humboldt University. In 2015 she received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin (Department II). In 2016 she was a Fellow in the History of Knowledge, German Historical Institute Washington DC . After her habilitation on February 8, 2017, she took over the professorship for cultural history at Humboldt University. In 2018 she represented the professorship for the history of technology at the Institute for Philosophy, the History of Literature, Science and Technology at the TU Berlin . Since March 2018 she has been teaching as a professor of modern history: the history of science in Vienna .

Her main research interests are the history of science, particularly of the 18th and 19th centuries, historical epistemology, the history of quantification, the colonial history of surveying and standardization (German New Guinea), the history of auxiliary sciences and historical methods (metrology, chronology) and the history of technology of money, multiplicities of Money, paranumismatics.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Sebastian Gießmann: Eddy, currents, turbulence . Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86572-588-2 .
• Shadow battles. Genealogical practices in obituaries of natural scientists 1710-1860 . Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1071-1 .
• as editor with Iris Därmann : configurations. Uses of space . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-03734-156-8 .
• as editor with Dietmar Kammerer and Rebekka Ladewig: Economic Practices . Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86572-592-9 .

Web links

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Echterhölter ( Memento from June 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

supporting documents

1. ↑ Habilitation thesis