Anneliese Maier

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Anneliese Maier (born November 17, 1905 in Tübingen ; † December 2, 1971 in Rome , Italy ) was a German philosopher specializing in the history of science .

biography

Anneliese Maier was the daughter of the philosopher Heinrich Maier (1867–1933) and his wife Anna, b. Sigwart (1870–1953), daughter of the philosopher Christoph von Sigwart . After graduating from high school in Heidelberg, she studied philosophy , physics and mathematics at the University of Berlin from 1923 to 1930 . In 1930 she received her doctorate in Berlin with Eduard Spranger and Wolfgang Köhler with her doctoral thesis on Kant's quality categories . For political reasons (Nazi regime) she was denied a habilitation .

She initially worked for the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the Leibniz Edition. In 1936 she traveled to Rome to do archival research. There she worked from 1939 on a grant from the DFG at the Bibliotheca Hertziana , which was then called the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Art and Cultural Studies , from 1943 as an assistant.

In 1951 she got the title of professor at the University of Cologne and in 1954 she became a scientific member of the Max Planck Society . Maier was a corresponding member of the Academies of Sciences in Mainz (1949), Göttingen (1962) and Munich (1966). In 1966 she was awarded the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society for her achievements in the history of science , the most prestigious award in the field.

The Protestant daughter converted to Catholicism in 1943 and had been a member of the Roman Campo Santo Brotherhood since December 8, 1956. After her unexpected death on December 2, 1971, she was buried four days later on the Campo Santo Teutonico in a tomb of the Arch Brotherhood. Bernhard Hanssler gave the funeral oration .

Anneliese Maier Prize

Since 2011, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has presented a scientific award named after it, the Anneliese Maier Research Prize .

Works (selection)

  • Kant's quality categories , Berlin 1930 (Kant studies, result book 65).
  • The mechanization of the worldview in the 17th century , Leipzig 1938.
  • Studies on the natural philosophy of late scholasticism , in 5 parts, Roma 1949–1958:
    • Galileo's predecessors in the 14th century (1949)
    • Two basic problems of scholastic natural philosophy (1951)
    • On the border between scholasticism and science (1952)
    • Metaphysical background of late scholastic natural philosophy (1955)
    • Between philosophy and mechanics. Studies on the natural philosophy of late scholasticism (1958)
  • Late Middle Ages: Collected essays on the intellectual history of the 14th century , in 3 parts, Roma 1964–1977.

literature

  • Hans Blumenberg : “The preparation of the modern times” in: Philosophische Rundschau , 9th year (1961), issue 2/3, pp. 81–132. (Review of the five volumes of studies on the natural philosophy of late scholasticism )
  • Alfonso Maierù (Ed.): Studi sul XIV (trecento) secolo in memoria di Anneliese Maier. Roma 1981 (Storia e Letteratura, 151).
  • Alfonso Maierù and Edith Sylla: Daughter of her time. Anneliese Maier (1905–1971) and the study of fourteenth-century philosophy. In: Jane Chance (ed.): Women Medievalists and the Academy. Madison 2005, pp. 625-645.
  • Monika Renneberg:  Maier, Anneliese. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 696 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Steven D. Sargent (Ed.): On the threshold of exact science. Selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late Medieval Natural Philosophy. Philadelphia 1982.
  • Annette Vogt: From Berlin to Rome - Anneliese Maier (1905–1971) in: Walter, Peter Th., Marc Schalenberg (eds.), "... always stay in research", Rüdiger von Bruch on his 60th birthday. Munich 2004, pp. 391-414, online , PDF
  • Annette Vogt: From the back entrance to the main portal? Lise Meitner and her colleagues at the Berlin University and in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Stuttgart 2007 (= Pallas Athene, Vol. 17).
  • Annette Vogt: Anneliese Maier (1905–1971) between the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Campo Santo Teutonico , in: Michael Matheus / Stefan Heid (ed.): Places of Refuge and Personal Networks. The Campo Santo Teutonico and the Vatikann 1933–1955 ( Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history . Supplementary volume 63). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-30930-4 , pp. 94–122.
  • Annette Vogt: Scientist in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. A – Z. Berlin 2008, 2nd ext. Edition, pp. 122-125.
  • Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume I , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3-451-20882-2 , p. 347 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anneliese Maier Prize of the Humboldt Foundation , cooperation prize to promote the internationalization of the humanities and social sciences in Germany
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grill, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1971
Place of death Rome , Italy