Günther Oestmann

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Günther Oestmann (born May 7, 1959 in Bremen ) is a German watchmaker and science historian .

Life

Oestmann attended grammar school at the Kleine Helle and trained as a watchmaker from 1979 to 1982 . He then studied art history , modern history and the history of natural sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the University of Hamburg from 1983 to 1990 . Since 1990, Magister , he was in 1992 with a thesis on the astronomical clock of Strasbourg Cathedral to Dr. phil. PhD . Until 1994 he was a volunteer at the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart. After working as a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg , he completed his habilitation in 2001 with a monograph on Heinrich Rantzau and astrology .

In 2002 Oestmann passed the master's examination at the Federal College for Watchmakers in Karlstein an der Thaya . Then he worked on the history of navigation . From 2006 to 2008 he was conservator in the shipping department of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. In 2009 he took on a visiting professorship at the Institute for Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and the History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin . He has been teaching there as a private lecturer since 2010 and was appointed adjunct professor in 2017.

His research interests are maritime history, the history of scientific instruments and clocks, astronomy and mathematical geography, and the history of astrology.

Awards

Fonts

  • The astronomical clock of the Strasbourg cathedral. Function and meaning of a Kosmos model of the 16th century. Publishing house for the history of natural sciences and technology, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-928186-12-4 (= dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1991).
  • Interpretation of Fate and Astronomy. The celestial globe of Johannes Stoeffler from 1493. Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-929055-28-7 (exhibition catalog).
  • Clocks and instruments from the Hager family. Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig 1999, ISBN 3-927288-29-2 (exhibition catalog).
  • Heinrich Rantzau and astrology. A contribution to the cultural history of the 16th century. Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-927939-65-X (= habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg, 2001).
  • A Bremen navigation teacher on a “trip abroad” - Arthur Breusing's visit to the navigation schools in Prussia, Lübeck and Hamburg in 1858 , in: Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.): “There is no special path to geometry for kings” - Festschrift for Karin Reich (= Studies on the history of mathematics and natural sciences, Ed. Menso Folkerts, H. 60), Augsburg 2007, pp. 357-370.
  • With Friederike Boockmann, Paolo Bussotti and Daniel A. di Liscia: "'Not shaking the child with the bath': On the role of a pseudoscience in the age of the scientific revolution: Astrology in Johannes Kepler, Heinrich Rantzau and Galileo Galilei" (PDF; 12 MB) Akademie Aktuell: Journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 4/2008, pp. 51–60.
  • Heinrich Johann Kessels (1781–1849): An important manufacturer of chronometers and precision pendulum clocks (= Acta Historica Astronomiae. Vol. 44). Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-8171-1884-7 .
  • On the way to the "German Chronometer": The introduction of precision timers in the German merchant and navy up to the First World War (= German Maritime Studies. Vol. 21). Hauschild, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89757-522-6 .
  • History, construction and use of the astrolabe in dials of astronomical clocks , Editions "Institut l'homme et le temps" - Musée International d'Horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Oberhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89896-572-9

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The astronomical clock of the Strasbourg cathedral - function and meaning of a cosmos model of the 16th century .
  2. ^ Habilitation thesis: Heinrich Rantzau and Astrology - a contribution to the cultural history of the 16th century .
  3. ↑ https://www.watchonista.com/articles/history/prix-gaia-2013-gunter-oestmann-history-research-category
personal data
SURNAME Oestmann, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen