Dagmar Schäfer

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Dagmar Schäfer (born May 23, 1968 in Adenau ) is a German sinologist .

Life

Dagmar Schäfer received her training at the University of Würzburg , where she received her doctorate in 1996 under Dieter Kuhn . In 2005 she completed her habilitation in Sinology. Schäfer deals with the history of science and technology . She has taught at Zhejiang University , People's Republic of China, Würzburg University, Tsinghua University in Taiwan and the University of Manchester . She has been director of the Artifacts, Action and Knowledge department at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science since 2013 .

In 1998 she received a prize from the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science for her dissertation . She won the 2012 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society for her book The Crafting of the 10,000 Things . In 2014 she was elected to the Leopoldina . Schäfer was awarded a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for 2020 .

Schäfer is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • The emperor's silk clothes: State silk manufacturers in the Ming period (1368–1644). Edition Forum, 1998, ISBN 978-3-927943-17-9 . At the same time philosophical dissertation.
  • The Crafting of the 10,000 Things. University of Chicago Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-73584-9 .
  • as publisher: Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in China. Brill, 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-21844-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagmar Schäfer, ruchti-stiftung.de résumé. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Dagmar Schäfer, Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  3. ^ Website of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Winner of the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science in 1998. Würzburg 1998
  5. ↑ Pfizer Award hssonline.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Member entry by Dagmar Schäfer (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Adenau