David Gugerli

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David Gugerli (born October 21, 1961 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian and professor of the history of technology at the ETH Zurich .

Life

In 1986 David Gugerli graduated from the University of Zurich with a degree in general history, the history of modern German literature and literary criticism. In 1987 he did his doctorate with Rudolf Braun . After research stays in Paris , Mexico City , at Stanford University , at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and in Vienna, he completed his habilitation in 1995 at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the electrification of Switzerland. After a short time as a professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , he was elected Assistant Professor in 1997 and Full Professor of Technology History at ETH Zurich in 2001. He has also been a Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum since 2016 .

Gugerli is a co-founder and member of the Center for the History of Knowledge , editor of the series Interferenz - Kulturgeschichte der Technik and co-editor of Nach Feierabend, Zürcher Jahrbuch für Wissensgeschichte. He represents a cultural history of technology. His work focuses on a broad thematic field: the political history of the body, the history of electrification , the cartographic control of national space and the development of the technical university in the 19th and 20th centuries. More recently, studies have been carried out on the history of computer-aided search procedures and databases as well as the knowledge-based economy ( reinsurance industry ). Gugerli was President of the Strategy Commission at ETH Zurich from 2009 to 2016 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Between benefice and sermon. The Protestant parish family in the Zurich countryside at the end of the 18th century. Chronos, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-905278-30-8 (dissertation University of Zurich 1987/1988, 333 pages with illustrations and graphic representations, 21 cm [d-nb.info/881084301/04 table of contents]).
  • ed. with Sebastian Brändli, Rudolf Jaun , Ulrich Pfister: Switzerland in Transition. Studies on recent social history. Festschrift for Rudolf Braun on his 60th birthday . Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-7190-1058-9 .
  • with Rudolf Braun : Power of Dance - Dance of the Mighty. Court festivals and rulership ceremonies 1550–1914. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37550-2 .
  • Streams of speech. On the electrification of Switzerland 1880–1914. Chronos, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905311-91-7 (Habilitation University of Zurich 1994/1995, 350 pages, with illustrations and graphic representations, 25 cm).
  • How the virgin came to her path. Technical control of nature on an anthropomorphized landscape. In: Art + Architecture. Volume 48, 1997, ISSN  1421-086X , pp. 42-55.
  • with Daniel Speich Chassé : Topographies of the Nation. Politics, Cartographic Order and Landscape in the 19th Century. Chronos, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0340-0548-2 .
  • The flying surgeon. Contexts. Problems and models of virtual endoscopy. In: David Gugerli, Barbara Orland (Ed.): Completely normal pictures. Historical contributions to the visual production of self-evident (= interferences. Volume 2). Chronos, Zurich 2002, pp. 251-270, ISBN 3-0340-0551-2 .
  • with Patrick Kupper, Daniel Speich Chassé: The machine of the future. Business cycles at ETH Zurich 1855–2005. Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0732-9 .
  • Search engines. The world as a database (= edition unseld. Volume 19), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-26019-7 .
  • with Jakob Tanner : Knowledge and Technology. In: Patrick Halbeisen, Margrit Müller, Béatrice Veyrassat (eds.): Economic history of Switzerland in the 20th century. Schwabe, Basel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7965-2815-6 , pp. 265-316.
  • The World as Database: On the Relation of Software Development, Query Methods, and Interpretative Independence. In: Information & Culture. Vol. 47 (2012), No. 3, pp. 288-311, doi: 10.1353 / lac.2012.0016 .
  • with Peter Borscheid, Harold James and Tobias Straumann : Swiss Re and the world of risk markets. A story. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65583-8 ; English: The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-968980-4 .
  • with Hannes Mangold Editing of Max Frisch : Ignorance as State Protection? Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-42490-2 .
  • How the world got into the computer. On the emergence of digital reality S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-397226-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Gugerli's personal profile on the Diaphanes website , accessed on January 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. David Gugerli | Collegium Helveticum - ETH Zurich . In: Collegium Helveticum . January 25, 2017 ( ethz.ch [accessed April 30, 2018]).
  3. ^ Interferences series on the Chronos Verlag website , accessed on January 7, 2014.
  4. ↑ After work. Yearbook of the History of Knowledge on the Diaphanes website , accessed January 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Senior Fellows at the Zukunftskolleg. Accessed August 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ reviewed by Nicolai Hannig in the online forum H-Soz-u-Kult
personal data
SURNAME Gugerli, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, professor for the history of technology at the ETH Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich