Frank Holl (historian)

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Frank Holl (born August 20, 1956 in Heidelberg ) is a German literary scholar and historian.

Life

Frank Holl received his doctorate in 1993 from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a thesis on the physicist Max Born and his publisher Ferdinand Springer . In Germany and the Spanish-speaking world, he was best known for his publications and exhibitions on Alexander von Humboldt . Between 1994 and 2009 he conceived and organized eleven exhibitions on Humboldt in eight countries ( Mexico , Cuba , Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Spain and Germany ). From 2008 to 2018 he headed the Munich Science Days . With his work he is primarily committed to conveying scientific knowledge to a broad audience in a generally understandable way.

Publications

Books (selection)
  • Production and distribution of scientific literature. The physicist Max Born and his publisher Ferdinand Springer 1913–1970. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7657-1962-5 (also in: Archive for the history of books . Vol. 45, 1996; Dissertation, University of Munich, 1996).
  • (Ed.) Alejandro de Humboldt en Cuba. Catalog for the exhibition at Casa Alejandro de Humboldt in Havana . Wissner, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-89639-077-5 .
  • (Ed.) Alexander von Humboldt. Networks of knowledge. Book accompanying the exhibition in the House of World Cultures in Berlin and in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany Bonn . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0809-X .
  • El Mundo de Alexander von Humboldt. Antología de Textos. Texts by Frank Holl and Joaquín Fernández. Lunwerg Editores, Barcelona and Madrid 2002, ISBN 84-7782-899-7 .
  • (Ed.) Alejandro de Humboldt - una nueva visión del mundo. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. Lunwerg Editores, Barcelona / Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-9785-243-5 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt: My busy life. The researcher about himself and his works. Selected and provided with biographical interludes by Frank Holl. Eichborn, Frankfurt / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-5847-0 .
  • (Ed.) Alexander von Humboldt: There is a hustle and bustle in me. Discoveries and Insights. dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13739-3 .
  • (Ed.) Spices - sensual pleasure, living history. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Lokschuppen Rosenheim exhibition center , Event and Congress GmbH, Rosenheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030589-4 .
  • (with Eberhard Schulz-Lüpertz) I forged such big plans there ... Alexander von Humboldt in Franconia (= Franconian history vol. 18). Schrenk, Gunzenhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-924270-74-2 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt: My busy life. A biographical portrait presented by Frank Holl (= Folio volumes of the Other Library, Vol. 19). The Other Library, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8477-0019-7 .
Articles online (selection)
Edited volumes online
  • Humboldt and Hispanic America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano-América. Pasado, Presente y Futuro . (Volume 1, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the network . Ed. Together with Ottmar Ette and Eberhard Knobloch , 2009), ISSN  1617-5239 .
  • Humboldt and Hispanic America. Past, present and future. / Humboldt e Hispano-América. Pasado, Presente y Futuro . (Volume 2, HiN - Alexander von Humboldt in the net . Ed. Together with Ottmar Ette and Eberhard Knobloch , 2010), ISSN  1617-5239 .
Interviews online (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Organization of scientific events (selection)

Awards

  • 1994 Award of the work on Max Born and Ferdinand Springer ( see above ) with the Georg Agricola Society Prize for the History of Science and Technology
  • 2003 Award for El Mundo de Alexander von Humboldt as one of the best-edited books in Spain of 2002 in the category "Science and Technology", together with Joaquín Fernández, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
  • 2009 Award for Alexander von Humboldt - My Much Moved Life as the Historical Book of the Year 2009 in the "Autobiographical" category from the magazine Damals
  • 2009 Inclusion of the book Alexander von Humboldt - My Much Moved Life in the best list of the critics of the Süddeutsche Zeitung as book tip of the SZ critics 2009 , Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5th and 6th December 2009
  • 2018 Werner and Inge Grüter Prize for science communication

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.alexander-von-humboldt.de
  2. ↑ uni-potsdam.de
  3. ↑ uni-potsdam.de
  4. ^ HKW virtual Humboldt exhibition
  5. ↑ KAH online documentation ( Memento from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Virtual Library Museums, www.historisches-centrum.de
  7. ↑ Online documentation of the museum
  8. ↑ sanildefonso.org.mx
  9. ↑ Online documentation of the museum
  10. ↑ www.lokschuppen.de
  11. ↑ h-net.msu.edu
  12. ↑ bbaw.de
  13. ↑ bbaw.de
  14. ^ Prize of the Georg Agricola Society for the History of Science and Technology , website of the Georg Agricola Society, accessed on February 25, 2018.
  15. ↑ Fallados los Premios a los Libros del Mejor Editados año 2002. In: El Mundo . May 29, 2003, accessed June 23, 2015.
  16. ↑ The books of the year 2009 (PDF; 179 kB), website from Damals , accessed on February 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg