Heinrich Parthey

Heinrich Parthey (born August 13, 1936 in Bucharest ; † April 21, 2020 ) was a German philosopher , science researcher and lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

life and work

Heinrich Parthey studied philosophy at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1954 to 1959 under Ernst Bloch and Gerhard Harig, among others . His fellow students at the Leipzig Philosophical Institute included Klaus Kittowski , Reinhard Mocek and Hubert Laitko , who later became philosophers of science and with whom he worked continuously.

In 1963 he did his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin under Hermann Ley with a thesis on the subject of the experiment and its function in the cognitive process of physics . In 1989 he completed his habilitation with the writing Research Situation and Interdisciplinary: Investigations into the structure and function of interdisciplinary research situations based on data and information from groups in institutes of the biosciences . In 1991 Parthey was one of the founders of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung e. V. in Berlin and was its first chairman until his death. In 1997 he became a private lecturer at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Parthey was a lecturer at the University of Rostock from 1962 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1993 at the Institute for Theory, History and Organization of Science in Berlin (until 1990 Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR ). From 1994 he taught at the Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Parthey has published scientific articles on science methodology, science and innovation, the integrity of scientific publications, and other topics in the field of science studies. He edited numerous yearbooks of the Society for Science Studies and other anthologies.

Works

• Epistemology and method theory of experimental research. In: German magazine for philosophy (Berlin). 13 (1965) special issue, pp. 321–323.
• with Dietrich Wahl : The experimental method in natural and social sciences . German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1966.
• The problem as an epistemological category. In: German magazine for philosophy (Berlin). 16 (1968) special issue, pp. 162-170.
• The problem and features of its formulation in research. In: Heinrich Parthey (Hrsg.): Problem and method in research. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 11–36.
• Problem situation and research situation in the development of science. In: German magazine for philosophy (Berlin). 29 (1981), 2, pp. 172-182.
• Scientific metric analysis of the distribution of authors according to publication rates and scientific disciplines in life science research institutes in the 1970s. In: Heinrich Parthey, Dieter Schulze, AA Starcenko, IS Timofeev (eds.): Methodological problems of science research. Part III: Scientific Metric Methods. (= Scientific articles. Issue 17). Humboldt University, Berlin 1982, pp. 1-16.
• Relationship of Interdisciplinarity to Co-operative Behavior. In: PH Birnbaum – More, FA Rossini, DR Baldwin (ed.): International Research Management. Studies in Interdisciplinary Methods from Business, Government and Academia. Oxford University Press, New York 1990, pp. 141-145.
• Discovery, Invention, and Innovation. In: Heinrich Parthey (ed.): The new. Its origin and inclusion in nature and society. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1990, pp. 99–148.
• Bibliometric profiles of institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (1923–1943). (= Publications from the archive on the history of the Max Planck Society . Issue 7). Berlin 1995.

literature

• Hubert Laitko : Laudation for Heinrich Parthey's 60th birthday. In: Karl-Friedrich Wessel , Walther Umstätter (Hrsg.): Interdisciplinarity - Challenge to the Scientists: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Heinrich Parthey. (= Berlin studies on the philosophy of science & human ontogenetics. Volume 15). Kleine Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89370-277-6 .
• Grit Laudel , Jochen Gläser : Concepts and empirical findings on interdisciplinarity: Some possibilities for the sociology of science to connect to the work of Heinrich Parthey. - In: Karl-Friedrich Wessel , Walther Umstätter (Hrsg.): Interdisciplinarity - Challenge to the Scientists: Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Heinrich Parthey. (= Berlin studies on the philosophy of science & human ontogenetics. Volume 15). Kleine Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89370-277-6 .
• Gerhard Banse : Heinrich Parthey and the New. - In: Theories and concepts of scientific knowledge: Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Heinrich Parthey . Edited by Vivien Petras , Walther Umstätter a . Karl-Friedrich Wessel . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, 2017. pp. 9-28 . ISBN 978-3-96138-036-7 .
• Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2007. KG Saur, Munich 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Parthey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinrich Parthey's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ibi.hu-berlin.de: News archive - In April 2020, Dr. phil. Heinrich Parthey passed away. accessed on April 28, 2020
2. ^ Hubert Laitko : As a philosophy student in Leipzig - the late fifties. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang International Publishers of Science, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Warszawa / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 , p. 242.
3. ^ Website of the Society for Science Research
4. ^ Bibliography Heinrich Parthey. Compiled on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In: Werner Ebeling , Heinrich Parthey (Ed.) Self-organization in science and technology. Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2008. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2009. (PDF)