Jürgen Hamel

Archenhold Observatory
Main place of work for Jürgen Hamel

Jürgen Hamel (* 6. June 1951 in Stralsund ) is a German astronomy historian . His research areas are the history of astronomy in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, around 1800, the history of astrophysics, astronomy and cultural history, and the history of astronomical instruments .

Live and act

After an apprenticeship as a " chemistry laboratory assistant with high school diploma ", Jürgen Hamel studied philosophy, history and education at the University of Leipzig and then worked as a professor at the University of Rostock , where he received his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the early history of astrophysics.

From 1978 to 1991 Hamel worked at the Archenhold observatory as a student of Dieter B. Herrmann . In addition to his scientific work, he was committed to the popularization of astronomy, gave numerous lectures as part of the URANIA - Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge and was active in the editing of the magazine Astronomie und Raumfahrt published by the Kulturbund der DDR . Since 1990 Hamel has worked on the publication of the collected works of Nikolaus Kopernikus and Johannes Kepler . In 1996, as part of a grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation , he edited “The first German translation of Nicolaus Copernicus' main astronomical work 1586”. From 1998 to 2000 he worked at the Museum for Astronomy and History of Technology in Kassel. For many years he gave lectures on the "History of Astronomy" and "Introduction to Astronomy" at the University of Landau .

On May 17, 2001, Hamel was elected a member of the Leibniz Society . He is co-founder and co-editor of the Acta Historica Astronomiae series , editor-in-chief of the magazine Astronomie + Raumfahrt in class and, since 2019, the scientific yearbook for the history of Pomerania's Baltic Studies .

Hamel is married to the pediatrician Marita Künne and now lives near Barth ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). More recently, he has also devoted himself to scientific topics relating to the cultural history of the North Western Pomerania and Stralsund region.

Fonts (selection)

Introductions to the history of astronomy

• Ancient astronomy. (= Archenhold Observatory Berlin-Treptow. Lectures and writings. 60). 2. edit Edition. Berlin-Treptow 1981.
• Editing of the German-language edition by Angel Bonov: Constellations, Sternsagen: Myths and legends about constellations. Translated from Bulgarian by Leo Korniljew. 2nd Edition. Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-332-00031-4 .
• History of astronomy in source texts. From Hesiod to Hubble. Spectrum Academic Publishing House , 1996, ISBN 3-8274-0072-4 .
• History of astronomy. From the beginning to the present. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel / Boston / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5787-8 . 2nd edition Kosmos-Franckh, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-440-09168-6 .
• History of astronomy . In texts from Hesiod to Hubble. 2nd ext. Edition. Magnus Verlag, Essen 2004, ISBN 3-88400-421-2 .
• Milestones in Astronomy. From Aristotle to Hawking. Kosmos Verlag , 2006, ISBN 3-440-10179-7 .

Biographies and special topics

• On the origin and impact of the Kantian cosmogony. (= Messages from the Archenhold observatory. 130). Berlin-Treptow 1979.
• Karl Friedrich Zöllner . Attempt to analyze his philosophical position (= communications from the Archenhold observatory. 129). Berlin-Treptow 1977.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (= biographies of outstanding natural scientists, technicians and physicians . 67). BSB Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1984 ISSN  0232-3516
• Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (= biographies of outstanding natural scientists, technicians and physicians. 89). BSB Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-322-00482-1 .
• Nicolaus Copernicus . Life, work and effect . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg / Berlin / Oxford 1994, ISBN 3-86025-307-7 .
• The astronomical research in Kassel under Wilhelm IV. With a scientific partial edition of the translation of the main work by Copernicus 1586. (= Acta Historica Astronomiae. 2). 2. corr. Edition. Harri Deutsch Verlag , Thun / Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8171-1690-X .
• Jürgen Hamel, Eberhard Knobloch , Herbert Pieper (eds.): Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin. Its influence on the development of the sciences . (= Algorism. Studies in the history of mathematics and natural sciences. 41). Augsburg 2003.
• Jürgen Hamel (Ed.): Scientific colloquium for the 75th birthday of Hans-Jürgen Treder . (Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society), trafo, Berlin 2003
• Herrmann, Dieter B. In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Wattenberg, Diedrich . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• A contribution to the family history of Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel . The astronomer's stem series based on the sources . In: Mitteilungen der Gauss Gesellschaft 26 (1989), pp. 99-103 (= messages from the Archenhold observatory; 164).
• Masterpiece of cartography. The Lubin Pomeranian Map from 1618 . (= Writings of the STRALSUND MUSEUM, Vol. 3), Stralsund 2018, ISSN  2568-6526 .

Classical Studies

• as arrangement : Bibliographia Kepleriana. Directory of the printed writings by and about Johannes Kepler . Supplementary volume to the second edition. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-01687-1 .
• with Klaus Harro Tiemann and Martin Pape (eds.): The cosmos lectures 1827/28 in the Berlin Singakademie. Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004
• with Miguel A. Granada and Ludolf von Mackensen : Christoph Rothmanns Handbuch der Astronomie von 1589 . Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2003, ISBN 3-8171-1718-3 .
• with Thomas Posch (Ed.): About the revolutions of the heavenly circles . (= Ostwald's classic of the exact sciences. 300). Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-8171-3300-0 .
• as editor: About the construction of heaven. Treatises on the structure of the universe and the development of the heavenly bodies 1784–1814 by Wilhelm Herschel . (= Ostwald's classic of the exact sciences. 288). Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8171-3288-3 .
• Epilogue. In: Immanuel Kant : General natural history and theory of heaven . (= Ostwald's classic of the exact sciences. 12). Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 147-212.
• Menso Folkerts (Ed.): Nicolaus Copernicus Complete Edition . Volume III / 3: De Revolutionibus. The first German translation in the Graz handwriting. Critical Edition. edit by Andreas Kühne, Jürgen Hamel. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-05-004355-5 .
• The sky survey of Johann Bayer . (Companion book to Uranometria ). Gerchsheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-934223-36-3 .
• Studies on the "Sphaera" of Johannes de Sacrobosco . (= Acta Historica Astronomiae. 51). Leipzig 2014
• Peter Apian : Instrument Book . Reprint of the original Ingolstadt edition, 1533. Ed. With an afterword by Jürgen Hamel. Reprint Verlag, Leipzig 1990.

Astrology reviews

• Astrology - daughter of astronomy? (= accent series . 85). 2nd Edition. Urania Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-332-00128-0 .
• Astrology - daughter of astronomy? (= Spectrum of knowledge. 3426). Moewig, Rastatt 1989, ISBN 3-8118-3426-6 .
• Terms of astrology. From evening star to twin problem. Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8171-1785-7 .

literature

• Wolfgang R. Dick, Dietmar Prince (ed.): CVs and sky trains. Festschrift for Jürgen Hamel's 60th birthday. (= Acta Historica Astronomiae. Volume 52). Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-944913-42-1 .

Web links

• Dr. Jürgen Hamel @ art-und-friedrich.de
• Bibliography of the astronomical literature up to 1700. arr. by Jürgen Hamel, Friends of the Archenhold Observatory and the Zeiss Planetarium Berlin
• Jürgen Hamel @ univerlag-leipzig.de

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} “Introduced.” January 24, 2002. On Leibniz-Sozietät, accessed on January 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Wolfgang R. Dick, Jürgen Hamel (ed.): Acta Historica Astronomiae, ISSN 1422-8521. From Universitätsverlag Leipzig, accessed on January 3, 2019.