Hannelore Bernhardt

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Hannelore Bernhardt

Hannelore Bernhardt (born July 20, 1935 in Pethau near Zittau ) is a German historian of mathematics and science .

Life

The watchmaker's daughter Roswitha Hannelore Bernhardt, b. Kärgel, attended elementary and high school in Zittau , after graduating from high school , worked for two years as an observer at various stations in the Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the GDR, before studying mathematics at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig (KMU) from 1956 to 1961 . After graduation ( "The Kolmogorov equations for continuous stochastic processes") she took - according to their interests - by the director of the Karl-Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Science at the SME Leipzig Gerhard Harig offered postgraduate at which they 1966 through her doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. graduated with a dissertation on the "Relationship between probability theory and physics in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century" (Supervision: Herbert Beckert , Gerhard Harig). She then stayed as an assistant and senior assistant at the Karl Sudhoff Institute until 1970.

In 1960 he married the meteorologist Karl-Heinz Bernhardt . The couple has two daughters: Mira Stranz (* 1963), who holds a doctorate in engineering, and Sandra Rienäcker (* 1968), whose name has already become famous through the scientists Günther Rienäcker and Gerd Rienäcker . When their spouse was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB), the Bernhardt family moved to Berlin in 1970.

Hannelore Bernhardt initially worked for three years in the Vice-Rector for Forecasting and Scientific Development at the HUB, before she started working there in 1973 after the history of science was founded in the WTO section.

From 1975, Bernhardt gave lectures on the history of mathematics at the Mathematics Section and the WTO Section and beyond (as in Leipzig) as part of teacher training at district cabinets in Berlin, Angermünde, Frankfurt / Oder and for the Mathematical Schools Society. In 1979 she acquired the Facultas Docendi as a teaching qualification for the subject "History of Science, History of Mathematics" as part of a corresponding procedure, whereby she completed a specialist lecture and a specialist lecture as well as a university education qualification course as prerequisites.

With her appointment as a member of the working group "University and Higher Education History" at the Central Institute for Higher Education, the working group for the development of a thesaurus of the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education and as a member of the office of the mathematics section at the Presidium of Urania and Urania at the HUB extensive tasks were also associated with popular science (publication and non-university lecturing activities).

In 1987 she founded and directed the “Series of University History Colloquia” at the HUB, and organized and conducted conferences of the “History of Mathematics Section” of the Mathematical Society of the GDR in 1985 and in 1991 together with the German Mathematicians Association (membership since 1962 and 1991)

In 1984, her research led to her PhD B (Dr. sc. Phil .; equivalent to habilitation ) on the subject of " Richard von Mises and his contribution to the foundation of probability theory in the 20th century." (Reviewer: Peter Franken , Boris Gnedenko (Moscow), Walter Purkert and Georg Wintgen ).

In 1985 she was appointed university lecturer at the HUB as a university lecturer for the history of natural sciences / mathematics. With effect from April 1, 1985, she was appointed head of the “Research Center for University History” as a working group in the WTO section. At the same time as the section was wound up in 1990/91, it had to stop its work. This also ended the publication of the series “Contributions to the History of the Humboldt University in Berlin”.

In the following years, Hannelore Bernhardt has continued her scientific work (lectures, publications), this as part of an ABM position, a work contract, as an employee on a DFG project (University of Osnabrück) or as an unemployed and pensioner. She was a member of the Alternative Study Commission "German Contemporary History", later of the Alternative Berlin History Forum (2nd speaker) from 1993 to 2013 and has been a member of the Friends of the Leibniz Society in Berlin since 2004.

Bernhardt is an ambitious athlete, especially a marathon runner with active participation in famous city marathons worldwide such as the Berlin Marathon , London Marathon , New York City Marathon , Athens Marathon , Hamilton Marathon ( New Zealand ) and others; she is also a trainer and sports organizer.

Memberships and honors (selection)

Work (excerpt)

Hannelore Bernhardt's areas of work include the history of mathematics and physics, the history of institutions and scientific biographies. She has written over 150 papers on this topic and published 22 issues in the series “Contributions to the History of the Humboldt University of Berlin” and has contributed to several relevant dictionaries.

  • The recurrence objection to Boltzmann's H-theorem and the concept of irreversibility. NTM 6 (1969) 2, pp. 27-36.
  • About the development and importance of the ergodic hypothesis in the beginnings of statistical physics. NTM 8 (1971) 1, pp. 13-25.
  • Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrow (ed.), Hannelore Bernhardt, Walter Purkert (ed. Of the German edition): Die Hilbertschen problems. (Translation from Russian). Academic Publishing Company Geest and Portig, Leipzig 1971, 2nd edition 1979, 3rd edition 1983. Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1989.
  • Some observations on the philosophical views of the mathematician Richard von Mises . HUB, Philosophy Section, “Philosophy in the past and present” Berlin 1978, issue 11, pp. 7–12.
  • On the history of the statistical interpretation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics . Rostock physical manuscripts 3/1 (1978), pp. 95-104.
  • Calendar on the history of the natural and technical sciences for the years 1983 to 1989. 130 short biographies of important mathematicians. Urania series for speakers. Berlin 1982–1989.
  • To compare the probabilistic concepts of R. v. Mises and AN Kolmogorov . Perspectives of intercultural interaction for scientific progress. Contributions from scientific historians of the GDR to the XVIII. International Congress for the History of Sciences in Berkley (USA), Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Institute for the History and Organization of Sciences. Colloquia Booklet 43, pp. 205-209. Berlin 1985.
  • Contributions to Volume I / 26 (Dialectics of Nature) of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) . Berlin 1985.
  • Friedrich Engels and mathematics. In: Contributions to the 9th symposium "History, Philosophy and Fundamentals of Mathematics" of the Mathematical Society of the GDR, October 22 - 24, 1985 in Egsdorf: Historical and Philosophical Problems of Mathematics. Edited and lecture by H. Bernhardt, BERICHTE Vol. 6, Issue 12, 1986, pp. 22-28.
  • From the work of the university-historical colloquia 1987 - 1990. Wiss. Editing, selection and foreword by H. Bernhardt. Contributions to the history of the Humboldt University of Berlin, issue no.23, Berlin 1989.
  • The Berlin mathematician Richard von Mises and his probabilistic concept. Knowledge Journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Math.-Nat. Series XXXXIX (1990), pp. 205-209.
  • Rector's speeches from the years of the Weimar Republic. Contributions to the history of the Humboldt University in Berlin, issue No. 30. Ed .: President of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Editing, selection, guidance and explanations: Hannelore Bernhardt. Berlin: Humboldt University 1992.
  • About university autonomy and academic freedom. Contributions to the history of the HUB zu Berlin, issue 31. Ed .: The President of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Editor: Hannelore Bernhardt. Berlin: Humboldt University 1993.
  • Richard von Mises during his time in Berlin. In: Hans Reichenbach and the Berlin group, pp. 101–112. Vieweg & Sohn publishing company, Braunschweig; Wiesbaden 1994.
  • About inaugural speeches by mathematicians at Berlin University. Mathematik im Wandel Vol. 1, pp. 268–281. Hildesheim; Berlin 1998.
  • The geophysicist Julius Bartels as a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. (together with Karl-Heinz Bernhardt ). Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 43, pp. 109–125. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2000.
  • Anniversaries in the shadow of the Cold War - the contribution of the Mathematical Institutes to the 150th anniversary of the Humboldt University in 1960. Dahlem Archive Discussions, Volume 8, pp. 186–209, Berlin 2002.
  • Gerhard Harig (1902-1966) - Life and work in turbulent times. Texts on philosophy. Edited on behalf of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony. Natural science in the focus of philosophy, history and politics Leipzig 14 (2004), pp. 9–37. See also Leibniz online 2 (2006), 23 pp.
  • Hermann von Helmholtz in the epistemological-philosophical work of H. Hörz . Revised Lecture at the celebratory colloquium for the 70th birthday of H. Hörz. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 64, pp. 63–72. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2004.
  • Richard von Mises and the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 64, pp. 180–185. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2004.
  • "Preserve the sacred flame of science". Dahlem Archive Talks, Volume 11, pp. 32–52, Berlin 2005.
  • Leonhard Euler's life and work. An introduction. Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 94, pp. 15–31. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2008.
  • The Humboldt University Unter den Linden 1945 - 1990. In: Zeitzeugen - Insights - Analyzes, pp. 59-105. Leipzig University Press 2010.
  • Robert Havemann (1910-1982) and the German Academy of Sciences. (together with Karl-Heinz Bernhardt ), Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 109, pp. 157-160. trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2011.
  • Highlights from 200 years of Berlin's Humboldt University. Helle Panke, Berlin 2012.
  • On the history of the Mathematical Society of the GDR and in particular its section on the history of mathematics. Mathematics and Applications, Forum 14, pp. 175-180. Bad Berka 2014.
  • Captured past. Highlights from the history of science in Berlin - academy and university. Treatises of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 38, 308 p. Trafo Wissenschaftsverlag Dr. Wolfgang Weist, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86464-071-1 .
  • About the scientific work of Friedrich Herneck . In: Andreas Wessel, Dieter B. Herrmann , Karl-Friedrich Wessel (Eds.): Friedrich Herneck. A life in search of truth. Berlin studies on the philosophy of science and human ontogenetics, Volume 32, pp. 85-103. Logos, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8325-4147-7 .
  • Alma mater lipsiensis - impressions of studies and scientific life at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in the 1950s and 60s. (together with Karl-Heinz Bernhardt ), pp. 235–240. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski ; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang International Science Publishing House - PL Academic Research, Frankfurt a. M .; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653-06277-9 (e-book).
  • Hans Reichardt (1908-1991). In: Nuncius Hamburgensis Volume 36, Festschrift - Proceedings of the Scriba Memorial Meeting, Wiss. Coll. Of the specialist groups in the history of mathematics in the German Mathematicians Association (DMV) and the Society for Didactics (GDM), Ed. Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Hamburg: tredition 2017, pp. 468–479.

literature

  • Herbert Beckert , Horst Schumann (Ed.): 100 Years of Mathematical Seminar at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1981.
  • Renate Tobies and NTM editorial team: Hannelore Bernhardt on his 70th birthday. In: NTM. Vol. 13, No. 3, 2005, pp. 188-189.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannelore Bernhardt: Richard von Mises and his contribution to the foundation of the calculation of probability in the 20th century. Habilitation thesis (dissertation B), Humboldt University Berlin 1984. [1]
  2. ↑ Appointment on the basis of the University Teacher Appointment Ordinance (HBVO) of November 6, 1968, published in the GDR Law Gazette (GBl. II, pp. 997-1003).
personal data
SURNAME Bernhardt, Hannelore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of mathematics and science
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Pethau