Dorothea Kuhn
Dorothea Kuhn (born March 11, 1923 in Halle an der Saale ; † December 13, 2015 in Weimar ) was a German science historian , edition philologist and Goethe researcher .
Life
Dorothea Kuhn studied chemistry from 1941 to 1944 at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and passed the pre-exam. In 1945 she left her hometown Halle. In 1952 she received her doctorate with a dissertation "To clarify the symmetry of the plant body" at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .
Since 1952 Kuhn has been the editor of the critical edition "Goethe - Die Schriften zur Naturwissenschaft" published by the Leopoldina , one of the few joint scientific projects in divided Germany. Since the deaths of Karl Lothar Wolf (1969), Rupprecht Matthaei (1976) and Wilhelm Troll (1978), Dorothea Kuhn and Wolf von Engelhardt have published the Leopoldina edition of Goethe's writings on natural science.
From 1959 to 1962 she studied edition philology with Friedrich Beißner . From 1962 to 1981 Kuhn headed the Cotta archive in the Schiller National Museum in Marbach. In 1970 she completed her habilitation at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for the subject of the history of natural sciences, and in 1978 she was re- qualified at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg , where she held an extraordinary professorship from 1981 to 1983 . She was a member of the Leopoldina from 1970. Dorothea Kuhn was "one of the great mediators of science in the GDR and the Federal Republic".
Awards
- 1985: Schiller Prize of the city of Marbach am Neckar
- 1991: Golden Goethe Medal
- 1998: German Language Prize from the Henning Kaufmann Foundation
- 1999: Cothenius Medal from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Works
- Itinerarium Italiae (1967)
- Empirical and Ideal Reality (1970)
- Poetic Work and Compulsory Trade (1979)
- Goethe and Cotta in their letters (1979)
- Type and Metamorphosis (1988)
- Goethe's travels through Swabia in 1779 and 1797 . German Schiller Society, Marbach am Neckar 1994, ISBN 3-929146-17-7 .
literature
- Andreas Kleinert : Dorothea Kuhn on her 80th birthday. In: News sheet of the German society for the history of medicine, natural science and technology. Vol. 53 (2003), pp. 139-141.
- Jutta Eckle, Dietrich von Engelhardt (Ed.): Connected by life events. Ceremony for Dorothea Kuhn on her 90th birthday on March 11, 2013. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2013.
- In it: Jutta Eckle: Dorothea Kuhn - life and scientific work. Pp. 13-24.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dorothea Kuhn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leopoldina edition: Goethe. The writings on natural science - history of the edition , website of the Leopoldina
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Knoche: She didn't care about borders. She floated over it: On the death of the Goethe expert Dorothea Kuhn. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 18, 2015, p. 12 ( online ).
- ↑ a b c Lothar Müller : sheet by sheet. The Goethe researcher Dorothea Kuhn has died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 21, 2015, p. 12.
- ^ Member entry by Dorothea Kuhn at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhn, Dorothea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science historian, edition philologist and Goethe researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle on the Saale |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2015 |
| Place of death | Weimar |