Cornelia Lüdecke

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Cornelia Lüdecke

Cornelia Lüdecke (* 1954 in Munich ) is a German science historian and university professor.

Life

In 1980 she obtained the diploma in meteorology at the LMU Munich , subject of the diploma thesis: Determination of HNO3 profiles from horizon sounding measurements . From 1980 to 1981 she was a research assistant in the atmospheric radiation and satellite meteorology working group at the Meteorological Institute of the LMU in Munich. From 1981 to 1985 she was a freelancer for MAN Neue Technologie AG; Karlsfeld near Munich. From 1985 to 1995 she was a development engineer in the environmental and biotechnology department at MAN Technologie AG, Karlsfeld near Munich. After completing her doctorate in 1994 in the history of natural sciences at the LMU in Munich, subject of the dissertation: German polar research since the turn of the century and the influence of Erich von Drygalski , she taught at the faculty of physics at the LMU Munich from 1997 to 2000. After her habilitation in 2002 in the history of natural sciences at the University of Hamburg, subject of the habilitation thesis: Selected chapters from the history of the geosciences - protagonists, theses, institutions , she was appointed private lecturer at the University of Hamburg in 2003 .

Since 2003, Lüdecke has been teaching at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences, University of Hamburg. From 2003 to 2005 she carried out research in the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Project on the scientific history of selected German polar expeditions in the period 1900 to 1945 with regard to the history of polar research and polar archeology / monument protection . In 2009 she was an associate at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich. She has been teaching as a professor since 2016 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • German polar research since the turn of the century and the influence of Erich von Drygalski. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich , 1993 (= reports on polar research . Volume 158, 1995). doi : 10.2312 / BzP_0158_1995
  • Carl Ritter taught at the General War School in Berlin (1820–1853) . Publishing house for scientific and regional history Dr. Michael Engel, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-929134-38-4 .
  • Amundsen. A biographical portrait . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-06224-7 .
  • with Colin Summerhayes: The Third Reich in Antarctica - The Story of the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938/39 . The Erskine Press, Eccles 2012, ISBN 978-1-85297-103-8 (English).
  • Germans in the Antarctic: Expeditions and Research from the German Empire to the Present . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-825-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ women-speaker-foundation.de
personal data
SURNAME Lüdecke, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich