Hartmut Petzold

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Hartmut Petzold (born July 10, 1944 ) was a curator for computer science , automation and time measurement at the Deutsches Museum in Munich .

Live and act

He studied electrical engineering and history at the TU Berlin and initially acquired the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. ( Communications engineering ), in 1983 he was awarded the title of Dr.-Ing. In 1983 on the basis of the dissertation (which was published in a shortened version in 1985 and fundamental to German computer history ) - a historical study of their manufacture and use from the German Empire to the Federal Republic . PhD . He was the editor of the journal Technikgeschichte . From October 1, 1988 to June 30, 2009, Petzold was curator for the IT and Automation and Time Measurement departments at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and from 1989 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich .

Publications

  • The determination of the "state of the art" and the "inventive step" in patent procedure Z 391. Documentation according to the Zuse papers . GMD studies, Volume 59. Society for Mathematics and Data Processing, Sankt Augustin 1981, ISBN 3-88457-015-3 .
  • On the emergence of electronic technology in Germany and the USA. The beginning of the mass production of electron tubes 1912–1918 . In: History and Society. Journal of Historical Social Science . Volume 13.1987. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISSN  0340-613X , pp. 340-367.
  • Modern mathematicians. The industrialization of computer technology in Germany . Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-35755-5 .
  • Some problems of radar systems historiography . (English). In: Oskar Blumtritt (Hrsg.), - (Hrsg.), William Aspray (Hrsg.): Tracking the history of radar . Deutsches Museum, Munich 1994, ISBN 0-7803-9987-0 , pp. 247-266. - Full text online (PDF, 40 MB) .
  • Quartz time, clock technology, timekeeping bureaucracy . In: Michael Grüttner u. a. (Ed.): History and Emancipation. Festschrift for Reinhard Rürup . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (inter alia) 1999, ISBN 3-593-36202-3 , pp. 553-569.
  • Konrad Zuse and Industrial Manufacturing of Electronic Computers in Germany . (English). In: Raúl Rojas (ed.): The first computers. History and architectures . History of computing. MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2002, ISBN 978-0-262-68137-7 , pp. 315-322.
  • Public and private clocks in town. Clocks as indicators of changes in urban handling of time . In: Willibald Katzinger (Ed.): Concept of time. Time measurement and understanding of time in an urban context . Contributions to the history of the cities of Central Europe, Volume 17. Austrian Working Group for Urban History Research , Linz an der Donau 2002, ISBN 3-900387-57-5 , pp. 107–128.
  • "Technology Museum" - encounters with historical technical objects in the Deutsches Museum . In: Michael Matthes (Hrsg.), Marc-Denis Weitze (Hrsg.): Messages and reports from the Institute for Museum Studies . Issue 26.2003. National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2003, ISSN  1436-4166 , pp. 15–21. - Full text online (PDF; 5.8 MB) ( Memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  • A computer science conference before the founding of computer science. The Darmstadt Conference of 1955 . In: Rudolf Seising (Ed.): Form, number, order. Studies in the history of science and technology. Ivo Schneider on his 65th birthday . Boethius, Volume 48. Steiner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08525-4 , pp. 759-782.
  • The paper in communication between man and machine . In: Armin B. Cremers (Ed.): Informatik 2005 - Informatik LIVE! Contributions to the 35th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Informatik eV (GI), 19. – 22. September 2005 in Bonn . Volume 1. GI-Edition, Proceedings, Volume 67. Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-88579-396-2 , p. 215 f.
  • On the contribution by Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann for the development of computer science in the GDR . In: Friedrich Naumann (Hrsg.), Gabriele Schade (Hrsg.): Computer science in the GDR - a balance sheet. Proceedings of the symposia October 7th to 8th, 2004 in Chemnitz, May 11th to 12th in Erfurt . GI Edition, Thematics, Volume 2007/1. Köllen, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-88579-420-2 , pp. 104-115.
  • The machine "Z". For the computer pioneer Konrad Zuse on the 100th birthday . In: Culture & Technology . Volume 34 (2010), Issue 32, Beck, Munich 2010, ISSN  0344-5690 , pp. 42–47, [1] .

Prizes, awards, honors

  • Publication Prize of the Deutsches Museum, Research Section , 2000 (together with Thomas Wieland) 
  • Festschrift for Hartmut Petzold on his 65th birthday (see: Literature)
  • Computing machines: A colloquium on the occasion of Hartmut Petzold's 65th birthday , held on July 10, 2009 at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. 

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hashagen: Computing Machines in Transition , p. 6.
  2. ↑ ISBN 3-18-150041-0 .
  3. ↑ Hartmut Petzold . In: Mathematics Genealogy Project , accessed May 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ ISSN  0040-117X .
  5. ↑ Lucas et al. : Annual report 2009 , p. 27.
  6. ↑ a b Hashagen: Computing Machines in Change , p. 5.
  7. ↑ Friedrich L. Bauer (Ed.): 40 Years of Computer Science in Munich: 1967 - 2007. Festschrift . Faculty of Computer Science (IN) of the Technical University of Munich, Munich 2007, p. 391. - Full text online (PDF; 9.2 MB) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.in.tum.de
  8. ^ Stephan H. Lindner (Red.): 10 Years Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology. Reporting tape . MZWTG, Munich 2008, p. 46. - Full text online (PDF; 1.9 MB) ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Petzold, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, technical historian and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1944