Hubert Laitko

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Hubert Laitko (2016)

Hubert Laitko (born April 3, 1935 in Spremberg ) is a German science historian and science theorist .

Life

Hubert Laitko was born as the son of the locksmith Otto Laitko and his wife Liesbeth Laitko . Buder in Spremberg ( Lower Lausitz born), attended from 1941 to 1953, the primary and secondary school and put in 1953 at the Karl-Marx-Oberschule Spremberg the High School from.

Subsequently, he studied from 1953 to 1959 at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig first journalism and after three years of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, the time of Ernst Bloch was headed. His most important academic teachers during this time were the philosopher Rudolf Rochhausen , the physicist and scientific theorist Asari Polikarow and the science historian Gerhard Harig . His fellow students at the Leipzig Philosophical Institute included Klaus Kittowski , Reinhard Mocek and Heinrich Parthey , who later became philosophers of science and with whom he has worked to this day. Laitko completed his studies in 1959 with the state examination in philosophy. During his studies and his subsequent activity in Halle (Saale) he worked in the Leipzig student cabaret Rat der Mockers , to whose founding generation he belonged, which he led for a time and which had to be dissolved in the autumn of 1961 after a program had been classified as counterrevolutionary .

After a year as a research assistant for philosophy at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Halle , he was an aspirant from 1960 to 1963 at the chair for "Philosophical Questions in Natural Sciences" at the Philosophical Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin under Hermann Ley . In 1964 he received his doctorate with the thesis “On the philosophical conception of the physicist Pascual Jordan . Attempt at a critical analysis "to the Dr. phil. and then remained until 1969 as an assistant, senior assistant and research assistant at this institute.

From 1969 he was part of the founding team of the “Institute for Theory of Science and Organization” - IWTO at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW), from 1975 renamed “Institute for Theory, History and Organization of Science” - ITW at the Academy of Science Sciences of the GDR (AdW). There he first headed a research group and then the "History of Science" division.

Laitko completed his habilitation in 1978 at the academy with the dissertation B "Science as general work - on the conceptual foundation of scientific science". In 1979 he was appointed professor at the academy.

With the liquidation of the ITW, Laitko was transferred to early retirement in 1991 ("age transition benefit").

Laitko has been an elected member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 1994 and is a member of its commission for the history of academia and science. He is a founding member and board member of the Society for Science Research in Berlin.

From 2008 to 2014 Laitko was a lecturer in the history of natural science at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus .

In 1994, with Eckart Henning , Laitko founded the “Dahlem Archive Talks”, which existed until 2014 and have been documented in a series since 1996. Laitko has edited several yearbooks of the “Society for Science Research” and has written works on Robert Havemann .

The focus of Laitko's scientific work is on investigations into the history of scientific institutions and institutional networks in the 19th and 20th centuries: science and science policy in Prussia and in Wilhelmine Germany; History of the Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society; German academy history; Disciplinarity and disciplinary genesis; Institutional history of science in the GDR. There are also works on the history of science research.

Laitko has been working with the doctor (rheumatologist) Sigrid Laitko , geb. Stope married, the couple has a daughter, Ulrike Laitko , who has a PhD in biophysics .

Honors (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Bibliography Hubert Laitko. Compiled on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In: Social integration of research. Science research. Special print, yearbook 2005. Edited by Klaus Fischer and Heinrich Parthey . Berlin 2006, pp. 181-210, ISBN 3-934682-40-5 .
  • Edited with Reinart Bellmann: Paths of recognition - philosophical contributions to the methodology of scientific knowledge. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1969.
  • with Wolf-Dietrich Sprung: Chemistry and Weltanschauung. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1970, 2nd edition 1973.
  • with Günter Kröber : Science as a social force. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Science as general work - for the conceptual foundation of the science of science. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979.
  • Head of the authors' collective: Wissenschaft in Berlin - from the beginnings to the new beginning after 1945. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987.
  • Ed. With Martin Guntau : The origin of modern science. Studies on the emergence of scientific disciplines. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987.
  • History of science in Berlin in the field of tension between the world process of the history of science and urban character. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1988.
  • Edited with Dieter Hoffmann : Robert Havemann : Texts. Why I was a Stalinist and became an anti-Stalinist. Berlin 1990.
  • Edited with Dieter Hoffmann: Ernst Mach : Studies and documents on life and work. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1991.
  • Edited with Heinrich Parthey and Jutta Petersdorf: Wissenschaftsforschung. Yearbook 1994/95, 1996.
  • Edited with Siegfried Greif and Heinrich Parthey : Wissenschaftsforschung. Yearbook 1996/97, 1998.
  • Edited with Bernhard vom Brocke : The Kaiser Wilhelm / Max Planck Society and its institutes. Studies on their history: the Harnack principle. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996.
  • East German science in the seventh year of German unity. In: ICARUS. Journal of Social Theory and Human Rights. 3 (1997), pp. 3-9.
  • Processing reminiscences. Thinking about the end of the academy. In: Hochschule Ost 6 (1997) 1, pp. 55–81.
  • Edited with Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski , Heinrich Parthey , Walter Umstätter: Science and Digital Library. Science research. Yearbook 1998. Society for Science Research, Berlin 2000.
  • Theoria cum praxi. Demands and reality of the academy. Lecture held at the Leibniz Day of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin on June 29, 2000.
  • Edited with Dieter Hoffmann, Staffan Müller-Wille: Lexicon of important natural scientists in three volumes. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin 2003–2004.
  • Ed. With Andreas Trunschke : With science into the future: Review of John Desmond Bernal. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brandenburg, Potsdam 2003.
  • Edited with Lorenz Friedrich Beck: Dahlem Archive Talks , founded by Eckart Henning ; from volume 12 (2007) published for the archive of the Max Planck Society.
  • Strategists, organizers, critics, dissidents - behavioral patterns of prominent scientists of the GDR in the 50s and 60s of the 20th century. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin 2009. online, PDF
  • Edited with Klaus Fischer, Heinrich Parthey : Interdisciplinarity and institutionalization of science. Science research. Yearbook 2010. Scientific publishing house, Berlin 2011.
  • Ed. With Karl-Friedrich Wessel , Thomas Diesner: Hermann Ley - thinker of an open world. Kleine Verlag, Grünwald 2012.
  • Edited with Herbert Hörz : Academy and University from a historical and current perspective: division of labor, competition, cooperation. Annual conference of the Leibniz Society 2010 in Berlin. Trafo-Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2013.
  • Edited with Karl-Heinz Bernhardt : Academic and non-academic research in Germany - tendencies and turning points of a century. Trafo-Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86464-031-5 .
  • Promotion of talent and elite in the "Althoff System". In: Karl-Friedrich Wessel and Andreas Wessel (eds.): Personality and responsibility in science, medicine and technology. Robert Ketting in memory. Berlin studies on the philosophy of science and human ontogenetics, vol. 30. Kleine Verlag, Grünwald 2013, ISBN 978-3-937461-57-1 .
  • Ed. With Harald A. Mieg, Heinrich Parthey : Inquisitive learning. Science research. Yearbook 2016. Scientific publishing house, Berlin 2017.

Sources and literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, p. 241, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978 -3-653-06277-9 (e-book).
  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 . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, p. 242, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978 -3-653-06277-9 (e-book).
  3. ↑ Ernst Röhl : advice of scoffers. Peter Sodann's cabaret . Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-378-01062-2 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Peter Sodann , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, March 14, 2014, p. 64.
  5. ^ Dieter Hoffmann :  Laitko, Hubert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  6. ↑ Laitko's theoretical statements about scientific schools were concretized in the historiography of structural engineering ("Berlin School of Structural Engineering"), see: Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 2018, p. 523ff., ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Laitko, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of science and science theorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Spremberg