Jens Thiel

Jens Thiel (* 1966 in Eisleben ) is a German historian .

Life

From 1991 to 1997, Thiel completed a degree in modern and contemporary history with a focus on the history of the 19th and 20th centuries and cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Gent , from which he graduated with a master's degree. From 1997 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2010 he worked as a freelance researcher for projects at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the historical research institute Facts & Files Berlin. In 2003 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty I of the Humboldt University in Berlin with a dissertation on forced labor in Belgium during the First World War. Until 2005 and from 2010 to 2014 he was a research assistant at the chair for the history of science. In 2014/15 he was a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich . Since 2015 he has been a research assistant at the History Department of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

His main research interests are the history of science and the history of political culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fonts

Monographs

• with Matthias Berg , Olaf Blaschke , Martin Sabrow and Krijn Thijs: The assembled guild. Association of Historians and Historians' Days in Germany 1893–2000 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018.
• with Sybille Gerstengarbe and Rüdiger vom Bruch : The Leopoldina. The German Academy of Natural Scientists between the Empire and the former GDR , be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2016.
• with Annette Hinz-Wessels: The Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut 1910–2010. 100 years of research for animal health. Published by the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Greifswald-Insel Riems, be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2010.
• Paul Abraham. Legal historian at the Prussian Academy of Sciences (= Jewish miniatures , 102), Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag / Centrum Judaicum, Berlin 2010.
• »People basin Belgium«. Deportation, forced labor and recruitment in the First World War (= writings of the library for contemporary history , new volume 20), Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007.

Editorships

• Yes-sayers or no-sayers. The Hamburg dispute between German authors from East and West 1961. A documentation , Aurora Verlag, Berlin 2011.
• Edited with Matthias Berg and Peter Th. Walther : With pen and sword. Military and science - scientists and war (= science, politics and society , 7), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009.
• Edited with Dirk Rupnow , Veronika Lipphardt and Christina Wessely: Pseudoscience. Concepts of non-scientific nature in the history of science (= Suhrkamp Taschenbuchwissenschaft , 1897), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008.

Web links

• Website at the Humboldt University