Biohistoricum

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Museum Koenig, June 2014

The Biohistoricum is a museum and research archive for history of biology at the Bonn Museum Mile . It collects, preserves and presents documents, letters, books, illustrations, portraits, devices and objects on the history of biology in research and teaching. Important sources for the holdings are donations , bequests and donated holdings.

The facility was founded in September 1998 on the initiative of Armin Geus as Biohistoricum Neuburg in Neuburg an der Donau as a non-university, non-governmental museum. The registered association Biohistoricum Neuburg an der Donau , founded for this purpose, consisted of the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology , supporting individual members, the city of Neuburg and the district of Schrobenhausen . After the association was dissolved, the museum became the sponsorship of the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology . Folia Biohistorica ( ISSN  1437-7403 ), which was discontinued in 2005, was one of the publications in the archive .

In September 2008, the move to the premises of the Alexander Koenig Research Museum was completed. The Biohistoricum has been owned by the Koenig Museum since October 2008. The library of the Biohistoricum currently comprises over 50,000 volumes. From the series Acta Biohistorica in publishing Basilisk Press published eleven volumes so far, the youngest 2010. head of the facility is Katharina Schmidt-Loske.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 19.4 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 48.6"  E