Heinz Balmer (science historian)

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Heinz Balmer (born April 10, 1928 ; † January 10, 2016 in Konolfingen ) was a Swiss science historian and author .

Life

Balmer grew up in Hofwil and from 1946 in Konolfingen in the canton of Bern . He graduated from high school in 1947 and initially studied medicine , but graduated in natural sciences in 1953. He worked as an assistant for geography at the University of Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1956 , and from 1956 to 1960 as a teacher at the secondary school in Signau . He then studied at the University of Basel until he worked again as an assistant in Bern from 1963. From 1969 to 1973 he was lecturer for the history of natural sciences at the University of Stuttgart , then for a year at the University of Bonn . From 1974 to 1996 he worked at the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich , where he qualified as a professor in 1981 for the history of natural sciences .

Balmer was married with five children and lived in Konolfingen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the history of the knowledge of terrestrial magnetism (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences. Vol. 20). Sauerländer, Aarau 1956 ( dissertation , University of Bern, 1956).
  • Faces of great creators. Planned and introduced by Bettina Holzapfel , continued and ed. by Heinz Balmer. Birkhäuser, Basel 1961.
  • Three Bernese researchers: Walter Morgenthaler , Fritz Nussbaum , Walther Staub . From: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society . 146 (1966), vol. 1 (scientific part), pp. 225–306 ( digitized on SEALS ).
  • (with Emil Kuhn-Schnyder , Jean-Pierre Portmann) Hans Nüsch (Ed.): Louis Agassiz 1807–1873. Lectures at the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of death, held at the 153rd annual meeting of the Swiss Natural Research Society, Lugano, October 20, 1973 (= memoranda of the Swiss Natural Research Society. Vol. 89). [Fretz], [Zurich] 1975.
  • Albrecht von Haller (= Bern homeland books. Vol. 119). Haupt, Bern 1977 ( habilitation thesis , University of Zurich, 1977).
  • ed. with Beat Glaus: The heyday of Arabic science. Verlag der Fachvereine, Zurich 1990.

Web links

  • Andreas Kleinert : In memory of Heinz Balmer (1928–2016) [2] in: News sheet of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology eV 66 (2016), 79–81.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family's obituary, January 14, 2016, adieu-merci.ch, accessed on January 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Kleinert: In memory of Heinz Balmer (1928–2016) [1] in: News sheet of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology eV 66 (2016), 79–81.
  3. ↑ Obituary from the University of Zurich , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 19, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Handwritten short biography ( memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , private website of the “Society for a Total Culture”, May 2010, accessed on January 20, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.panideal-holzapfel.ch
personal data
SURNAME Balmer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss science historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1928
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2016
Place of death Konolfingen