Irene Strube

Irene Strube (born March 11, 1929 as Irene Gruhne ) is a German chemist and natural science historian.

Irene Strube graduated from high school in 1947 and then studied chemistry until 1953. As early as 1951 she became an assistant and in 1953 she became a qualified chemist and lecturer in chemistry at the Workers and Farmers Faculty of the University of Rostock . 1956 followed a scheduled scientific aspirant with Robert Havemann at the Humboldt University in Berlin , later with Gerhard Harig at the Karl Marx University Leipzig (KMU). In 1960 she rose to become a research assistant in Leipzig. In December of that year, Harig and Havemann did his doctorate on the subject of Georg Ernst Stahl's (1659–1734) contribution. To the development of chemistry . Strube became senior scientific assistant in 1966. In 1977 she received her PhD B with a thesis on the development and interrelationships between chemical science and chemical production during the industrial revolution and the full emergence of capitalism, especially in Germany . Since 1980 she has been a lecturer at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the SME. In 1989 she retired.

Strube has made a particular contribution to researching the history of chemistry. She worked for Justus von Liebig and Georg Ernst Stahl , among others, and was also involved in major projects at the Academy of Sciences in the GDR , such as the Lexicon of Antiquity . With her husband Wilhelm Strube she wrote a children's book on the history of science.

Fonts

• Images of the chemical past. From the beginnings of chemistry to the discovery of the combustion process , Urania, Leipzig-Jena 1960
• The discovery of the invisible , children's book publisher, Berlin 1962
• Justus von Liebig , Teubner, Leipzig 1973 (Biographies of Outstanding Scientists and Technicians, Vol. 12)
• Georg Ernst Stahl , Teubner, Leipzig 1984 (biographies of outstanding scientists and technicians, vol. 76)
• History of chemistry. An overview from the beginnings to the present (with Rüdiger Stolz and Horst Remane ), DVW, Berlin 1986 ISBN 3-326-00037-5
• Confessions to Peace. Natural Scientists and Physicians of the 20th Century in the Fight for Peace and Disarmament (Ed.), Academy, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-05-500610-0

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 591.

Web links

• Literature by and about Irene Strube in the catalog of the German National Library