Elisabeth Vaupel

Elisabeth Christine Vaupel (* 1956 in Luxemburg ) is a German historian of chemistry and science. She has been working at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 2004 .

Life

Vaupel studied chemistry, biology and history at the universities of Mainz, Freiburg and Munich between 1974 and 1982 . In 1982 she completed her diploma in chemistry at the University of Freiburg . In 1987 she did her doctorate at the LMU Munich with a thesis on the chemist Carl Graebe for Dr. rer. nat. From 1989 to 2004 she was head of the chemistry department at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, after which she moved to the research institute of the Deutsches Museum. In 2003 she qualified as a professor for the history of chemistry at the University of Stuttgart , where she has been a private lecturer in the Faculty of Chemistry since 2004. In 2008 she was appointed adjunct professor for the history of chemistry by the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart.

Vaupel published numerous articles on the history of chemistry, spices and other topics in the history of science and technology, for example in "Culture and Technology", the magazine of the Deutsches Museum, and in Chemistry in Our Time . At the Deutsches Museum she was responsible for exhibitions on color (1986), the world of spices and galalith (2003).

Work and research areas

• History of scientific and technical chemistry from the 18th to the 20th century
• The German Museum under National Socialism
• Chemistry history of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Cultural history of poisons
• History of Pharmacy

Publications (selection)

• as editor with Stefan L. Wolff: The Deutsches Museum in the time of National Socialism. An inventory (= Deutsches Museum. Treatises and reports. New series 27). With the collaboration of Dorothee Messerschmid-Franzen. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0596-0 .
• Spices. Eight cultural and historical portraits. Deutsches Museum, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-924183-85-6 .
• with Ulrike Brunken and Matthias Jenny: “Where the pepper grows”. A festival of herbs and spices (= The Palm Garden. Special issue. 32). Booklet accompanying the exhibition of the same name in the Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main. Palmengarten of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-931621-08-1 .
• Carl Graebe (1841–1927) - life, work and activity as reflected in the legacy of his letters. Munich 1987, (Munich, University, Dissertation, 1987).

• Essays:
  • War of chemists. The chemical industry in the First World War. In: Chemistry in Our Time . Volume 48, number 6, December 2014, pp. 460–475, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.201400669 .
  • From tar dye to insecticide. In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 46, number 6, December 2012, pp. 388-400, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.201200602 .
  • Hermann Staudinger and the artificial pepper. Substitute spices. In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 44, number 6, December 2010, pp. 396-412, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.201000524 .
  • Napoleon's continental barrier and its consequences: boom in substitutes. In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 40, number 5, October 2006, pp. 306-315, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.200600390 .
  • August Strindberg as a "natural scientist". In: Chemistry in Our Time. Volume 18, number 5, October 1984, pp. 156-167, doi : 10.1002 / ciuz.19840180503 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Elisabeth Vaupel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page about Vaupel at the Deutsches Museum
• Page about Vaupel at the Tele-Akademie