Daniel Speich Chassé

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Daniel Speich Chassé (* 1969 in Kibuye , Rwanda ) is a historian .

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Daniel Speich Chassé grew up in Switzerland and Kenya . He studied history , philosophy and ethnology at the University of Zurich . He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair for the History of Technology at the Institute for History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , where he worked in 2002 with the work Helvetic Improvements. The reorganization of the social relations to nature at the Linth (1783-1823) was awarded his doctorate .

In 2007 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and in 2008/2009 in France as a fellow at the Institut d'études avancées in Nantes and as a visiting professor at the University of Nantes .

Since 2011 he has been a professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne and since 2012 private lecturer at the University of Zurich.

In 2012 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich with the thesis The Invention of the Gross National Product. Global inequality in the history of knowledge of the economy. In it, he applies the theoretical considerations and methodological tools of modern, especially at the Center for the History of Knowledge in Zurich-driven history of knowledge , which until then mainly with natural science had occupied knowledge on the economics of. He follows how the construction of a gross national product by means of economic techniques made the economy of nation states measurable and countable in the sense of a national macroeconomy in the middle of the 20th century . This invention made the national economies established in this way internationally comparable and produced a national framework for the discussion of global inequality , which had important effects, in particular on development policy .

His main research interests include economic history , the history of knowledge, environmental history , the history of Switzerland and the modern history of Africa .

In 2013 he was one of the 286 university professors who signed the protest against the dismissal of Iris Ritzmann by the University of Zurich.

Fonts

  • with David Gugerli : Topographies of the Nation. Politics, Cartographic Order and Landscape in the 19th Century. Chronos, Zurich 2002, ISBN 978-3-0340-0548-7 .
  • Helvetic improvements. The reorganization of the social relations to nature on the Linth (1783–1823). Dissertation. University of Zurich 2002/2003. Chronos, Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-03-400664-4 .
  • Linth Canal. The corrected landscape - 200 years of history. Baeschlin, Glarus 2003, ISBN 978-3-85546-142-4 .
  • with David Gugerli, Patrick Kupper: The machine of the future. Business cycles at ETH Zurich 1855–2005. Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-03-400732-0 .
  • Lords of the wild water. The Linthingenieure as federal experts in the 19th century; Andreas Lanz (1740-1803). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-909059-35-5 .
  • Progress and development. In: Docupedia contemporary history . September 21, 2012 ( online ).
  • The invention of the gross national product. Global inequality in the history of knowledge of the economy. Habilitation thesis. University of Zurich 2012. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-37031-5 (= Critical Studies in History . Volume 212).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academic protest against the dismissal of Prof. Dr. Iris Ritzmann through the University of Zurich. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 5th November 2013
personal data
SURNAME Speicher Chassé, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Save, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Kibuye , Rwanda