Brigitte Hoppe

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Brigitte Hoppe (born May 27, 1935 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German historian of science who specializes in the history of biology (botany) and pharmacology.

Hoppe received her doctorate in 1964 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and from 1972 was a private lecturer at the University of Munich, where she became professor for the history of science in 1980.

She is a member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences and received its Koyré Medal in 2011 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hieronymus Bock's book of herbs as a source of botany and pharmacology history. Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1964.
  • Herb books, garden culture and sacred decorative plant painting at the beginning of the 17th century. In: Rechenpfennige. Essays on the history of science. Edited by the research institute of the Deutsches Museum. Munich 1968, pp. 183-216.
  • Hieronymus Bock's herbal book. Scientific historical investigation, with a list of all plants in the work, the literary sources of the medicinal indications and the uses of the plants. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1969, ISBN 978-3-7772-6931-3 .
  • Biology, the science of living matter from ancient times to modern times: biological methodology and teachings on the material composition of organisms. Sudhoffs Archive, supplement, Franz Steiner 1976 (Habilitation)
  • The origin of the diagnoses in the botanical and zoological systematics. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 62, 1978, pp. 105-130
  • From the early days of chemical constitution research: The tropane alkaloids atropine and cocaine in science and economy. Oldenbourg 1979
  • as Ed .: Controversies and Disputes in the Life Sciences in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Algorism, Volume 56, Augsburg: Rauner Verlag, 2006
  • as ed. with Nicolas Robin and Soňa Štrbáňová: International Networks, Exchange and Circulation of Knowledge in Life Sciences, 18th to 20th Centuries. In: Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Volume 56, 2006, pp. 127-356 (therein by Hoppe: The Transmission of Knowledge on East-Asiatic Plants to Europe in Early Modern Times, pp. 165-183).

She is co-editor of an edition of the drawings of Japanese plants by Engelbert Kaempfer (Munich 2003).

literature

  • Menso Folkerts , Stefan Kirschner , Andreas Kühne (eds.): Pratum floridum. Festschrift for Brigitte Hoppe. Rauner, Augsburg 2002 (= [Münchner Universitätsschriften:] Algorismus. Studies on the history of mathematics and natural sciences. Volume 38).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's Scholar's Calendar
  2. ↑ Brigitte Hoppe: Transformations of the ancient teachings of the material structure of organisms as a preparation for the modern metabolic physiology. Mathematical and scientific habilitation thesis Munich 1972.
personal data
SURNAME Hoppe, Brigitte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau