Hans-Joachim Braun (historian)

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Hans-Joachim Braun

Hans-Joachim Braun (born October 6, 1943 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) is a German social , economic and technical historian as well as a former university professor .

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Hans-Joachim Braun studied in the 1960s at the Universities of Münster , Bochum , Bristol and the London School of Economics . In Bochum he received his doctorate in 1971 and his habilitation in 1979 .

From 1971 to 1979 he was a research assistant at the University of Bochum. From 1979 he worked as a private lecturer with research and teaching stays at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .

From 1982 until his retirement in 2008, Braun held the chair for modern social, economic and technological history at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg . He is currently a lecturer at Helmut Schmidt University, HafenCity University Hamburg , Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Green College of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , Canada .

Braun's research focuses on technical innovations, technology transfer, failed innovations, the relationship between technology and music in the 20th century, as well as the comparison of technical and artistic creativity, especially in the case of invention and construction processes in technology and composition processes in music, as well as scientification and mechanization of football tactics.

In addition, Braun is the editor of Studies on Technical, Economic and Social History and a member of the editorial board of the ICON magazine . Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) , History of Technology , Vulcan: Journal of the Social History of Military Technology , der Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology und Transfers, Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies . Braun acted and acts as a member of the Académie Internationale d`Histoire des Sciences, as President of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Georg Agricola Society Promotion of the history of natural sciences and technology and as chairman of the Hans Schimank Memorial Foundation.

He has been married to Kathleen, b. Iddon, and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • Technological Relations between Germany and England: From the Middle of the 17th to the End of the 18th Century . Düsseldorf 1974.
  • Economic and Financial Policy Decision-Making Processes in England in the First Half of the 19th Century . Frankfurt am Main / New York 1984.
  • The German Economy in the Twentieth Century. The German Reich and the Federal Republic . London / New York 1990, new edition 2011.
  • Failed innovations . In: Social Studies of Science 22 (1992), as editor.
  • Construction, destruction and expansion of technical systems between 1914 and 1945 . In: H.-J. Braun, W. Kaiser: Energy industry, automation, information (= Propylaea history of technology . Vol. 5). Berlin 1992, pp. 11-279 / 533-548.
  • Music and Technology in the 20th Century . Baltimore / London 2002, as editor.
  • The 101 most important inventions in world history . Munich 2005.
  • Energy: gas and nuclear power (= series of publications by the Georg Agricola Society , vol. 35). Freiberg 2012, as editor.
  • Hans-Joachim Braun (Ed.): Creativity: Technology and Music . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-54365-8 .

literature

  • Reinhold Bauer , James C. Williams, Wolfhard Weber (eds.): Technology between artes and arts - Technology between artes and arts. Festschrift for Hans-Joachim Braun (= Cottbus studies on the history of technology, work and the environment. Vol. 31). Waxmann, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8309-2026-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. XLVI. Edition 2007/08. Lübeck 2007, p. 153.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg