Desiderius Papp
Desiderius Papp , also Desiderio Papp, (born May 21, 1895 in Sopron , † January 31, 1993 in Buenos Aires ) was an Austro-Hungarian-Argentine journalist and science historian. He worked mainly in South America, where he was one of the founders of the field of the history of science. Papp dealt mainly with the history of science and mathematics.
Life
Born in Hungary, he studied philology and philosophy at the University of Budapest with his doctorate in 1917 and moved to Vienna after the First World War , where he was editor of the science section of the New Vienna Journal . He also worked as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna and in 1929 published the erotic magazine Die Schlange , which had only five issues . In 1938, before the Nazis came to power, he fled first to Switzerland , then to Paris . In 1942 he went to Argentina. There he taught at universities in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela and founded the Chilean and Argentine Society for the History of Science.
In 1948 he became a corresponding and in 1961 a full member of the International Academy of the History of Science , of which he became an honorary member in 1985.
With Aldo Mieli and José Babini he edited the series Panorama general de la historia de ciencia in 12 volumes (of which he wrote the volume Exact Sciences in the 19th Century with Babini).
Works (selection)
- The machine man. Vienna: Stein-Verlag 1925. (Spanish translation 1988)
- What lives on the stars? A book about the inhabitants of other worlds. (With 118 ill.) Vienna, Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag 1931. (Dutch translation 1931)
- Future and end of the world. A book about the fate of humanity and earth. Vienna, Zurich: Amalthea-Verlag 1931. (2nd, complete edition 1947) (English translation 1934)
- Die Schlange, magazine (1929, five issues). Reprint
- The problem of the origins of the mundos. [With ill.] 3rd edition Madrid: Espasa-Calpe 1965.
- Brief historia de las ciencias. Desde la antigüedad hasta nuestros dias. [With fig.] (1st ed.) Buenos Aires: Enece Ed. 1988
literature
- Kohn Loncarica, AG: Desiderio Papp, 21 May 1895-31 January 1993. Isis 85 (1994), 666-667.
- Thomas Brandstetter : Life Beyond the Limits of Knowledge: Crystalline Life in the Popular Science of Desiderius Papp (1895-1993). In: Astrobiology, Volume 12, Number 10, 2012
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, pp. 500–501
Web links
- Literature by and about Desiderius Papp in the catalog of the German National Library
- Page in his memory, looked after by the widow
- Bibliographic evidence of some articles in the Neue Wiener Journal
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pop, Desiderius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pop, Desiderio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian-Argentine journalist and science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sopron |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1993 |
| Place of death | Buenos Aires |