Franz Strunz

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Franz Strunz (born November 15, 1875 in Eger , † March 28, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian of science.

Life

Strunz was the son of a consistorial councilor and studied science, philosophy and theology from 1897 at the Technical University of Dresden and from 1899 at the University of Berlin, and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1901 ( Contributions to the history of the development of stoichiometric research: a critique of inductive natural science ). In Berlin he was a student of Hans Heinrich Landolt and Wilhelm Dilthey and in Dresden of Ernst von Meyer . He then worked as a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Library in Berlin and Posen from 1901 to 1904 and completed his habilitation in 1905 at the Technical University of Brno and again in 1906 at the Technical University of Vienna . In 1914 he became adjunct professor at the Technical University of Vienna and in 1920 associate professor for the history of natural sciences at the Technical University of Vienna. He also had a teaching position there for the theory and practice of popular education. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1940 , but was later excluded again for unknown reasons.

In his time he was considered an important expert on Paracelsus and dealt with the history of natural research in the Middle Ages, the history of alchemy and astrology.

He was one of the founders of Urania in Vienna and its scientific director from 1910 to 1938.

In 1950 he received the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education . In 1906 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1987 the Strunzgasse in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt, was named after him.

He also got new editions of the history of alchemy by Karl Christoph Schmieder (Munich: Barth 1927) and chemistry in antiquity and the Middle Ages by Marcellin Berthelot (Vienna 1909).

Fonts

  • Theophrastus Paracelsus, his life and personality, a contribution to the intellectual history of the Renaissance, Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs 1903, archive
  • History of Natural Sciences in the Middle Ages. Shown in the floor plan, Stuttgart: Enke 1910, reprint Hildesheim: Gerstenberg 1972
  • Observation of nature and knowledge of nature in antiquity, a development history of the ancient natural sciences, Hamburg, Leipzig 1904, reprint Zentralantiquariat der DDR 1971, archive
  • Chemistry in Classical Antiquity, 1905
  • About the prehistory and beginnings of chemistry, 1906
  • Johann Baptist van Helmont (1577–1644): a contribution to the history of natural sciences, Vienna 1907, archive
  • Contributions and sketches to the history of the natural sciences, 1909
  • The past of nature research: a contribution to the history of the human mind, Jena 1913
  • Goethe as a natural scientist, Volksbildungshaus Wiener Urania 1917
  • Albertus Magnus, Wisdom and Nature Research in the Middle Ages, Vienna 1926
  • Paracelsus, Leipzig: Hassel 1924.
  • Theophrast von Hohenheim called Paracelsus, in: From German Art in Language and Poetry, Volume 3, Kohlhammer 1942, pp. 97–146.
  • Astrology, alchemy, mysticism: a contribution to the history of natural sciences, Munich 1928
  • Editor: Paracelsus, Volume Paramirum and Opus Paramirum, Jena: Eugen Diederichs 1904
  • Editor: Paracelsus, Das Buch Paragranum, Leipzig: Diederichs 1903
  • Alchemy, in: Religion in Past and Present, 3rd Edition, Volume 1, Tübingen 1957

literature

Wilhelm Huth: Franz Strunz (1875-1953), a life in the service of Paracelsus research . In: Nova Acta Paracelsica . Vol. 7, 1954, pp. 103-120 (with list of publications)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography after Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.), Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie, KG Saur / De Gruyter
  2. ↑ Member entry of Franz Strunz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ Strunz street in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Strunz, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian science historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheb
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1953
Place of death Vienna