Christoph Meinel (historian)
Christoph Meinel (born November 28, 1949 in Dresden ) is a German science historian.
Life
Christoph Meinel studied chemistry from 1968 to 1974 at the Philipps University in Marburg . He received his doctorate there in 1977 with a thesis on chemistry at the University of Marburg since the beginning of the 19th century . He then went to the University of Kent , the Universities of Hamburg (from 1981 as an assistant at the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Mathematics and Technology) and Marburg and completed his habilitation in Hamburg in 1987. In the 1990 summer semester he was C3 professor for the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Mainz . From the winter semester 1990 to the winter semester 2014/2015 he held the chair for the history of science at the University of Regensburg .
His areas of work are the history of chemistry and the history of science in the early modern period , including the history of alchemy .
He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and visiting scholar at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) and at the University of Paris-South .
In 1994 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1995 he received the Gmelin Beilstein Memorial Medal . In 1986 he received the Young Historians Prize from the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences , of which he has been a member since 1993. He was a member of the Joachim Jungius Society, which was dissolved in 2006 . In 2019 Christoph Meinel was awarded the Carl Duisberg plaque for services to the promotion of chemistry from the GDCh .
From 1998 to 2011 he was founding president of the International Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry. He was / is on the editorial board of the journals Ambix (London), Annals of Science (London), Centaurus (Copenhagen), Chemical Heritage (Philadelphia), Hyle: Studies in History and Philosophy of Chemistry (Karlsruhe), Dejiny ved a techniky (Prague ), Science Networks (Basel) and NTM (Basel).
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Meinel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Christoph Meinel on the website of the University of Regensburg
- Meinel, Christoph . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Meinel (Ed.): Alchemy in the European history of culture and science. Wiesbaden 1986 (= Wolfenbütteler Forschungen , 32).
- ↑ Member entry of Christoph Meinel (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
- ^ Entry in the membership list of the Académie.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinel, Christoph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |