Lars Bluma

Lars Bluma (born May 6, 1969 in Witten ) is a German engineering, science and mining historian . Since May 2018 he has been the director of the Wuppertal Historical Center .

Life

After studying history, German and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum , he first worked at the university archive there, until he switched to the chair for economic and technical history in 1999 as a research assistant. There he was in 2004 with a thesis on Wiener Norbert and the emergence of cybernetics in World War II PhD . From 2007 to 2012 he was a research assistant in the third-party funded projects "Past and Future of Social Security Systems Using the Example of the Federal Miners' Union and its Successors" and "The Miner's Body in Industrialization: Biopolitics in the Ruhr Coal Mining 1890–1980" at the Medical History Institute of the Ruhr University employed. From 2012, Bluma headed the mining history research department at the German Mining Museum Bochum / Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources.

In May 2018 he became the new head of the Wuppertal Historical Center. He is responsible for the Museum for Early Industrialization , the Engels House and the Wuppertal City Archives .

Memberships

• Society for the history of technology (GTG), managing director since 2015
• German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT)
• Association of German Engineers (VDI), head of the Technical History Committee
• International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), from 2007 to 2009 member and head of the program committee, from 2013 to 2015 member of the Executive Committee
• German Labor History Association
• Bergischer History Association

Fonts (selection)

• Norbert Wiener and the emergence of cybernetics in World War II. A historical case study on the connection between science, technology and society. Münster 2005. (Dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum, 2004)
• (as ed. together with Karl Pichol and Wolfhard Weber ): Technology mediation and technology popularization . Historical and didactic perspectives. Münster u. a. 2004.
• (as editor together with Karsten Uhl ): Controlled work, disciplined bodies? On the social and cultural history of industrial work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bielefeld 2012.
• (as ed. together with Judith Rainhorn): History of the Workplace. Environment and Health at Stake. In: European Review of History / Revue europeenne d'histoire , Vol. 20 (2013), No. 2 (Special Issue).
• The Hygienic Movement and German Mining 1890–1914. In: Lars Bluma, Judith Rainhorn (Ed.): A History of the Workplace. Environment and Health at Stake. New York / London 2014, pp. 7–26. (Reprint of the special issue of European Review of History / Revue europeen d`histoire , Vol. 20 (2013), No. 2, pp. 177–196.)
• L'ankylostomiase dans la Ruhr. Corps, environnement et réseaux sociaux dans l'industrie minière de l'Empire allemand. In: Judith Rainhorn (ed.): Santé et travail à la mine, XIXe-XXIe siècle. Lille 2014, pp. 35-57.
• Progress by Technology? The Utopian Linkage of Telegraphy and the World Fairs 1851-1880. In: M. Michaela Hampf , Simone Müller-Pohl (Ed.): Global Communication Electric. Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy. Frankfurt am Main / New York 2013, pp. 146–169.
• The objectification of the miner's body. Practices of visualization in the context of insurance rationality and occupational diseases. In: Sybilla Nikolow (ed.): Know yourself! Strategies for making the body visible in the 20th century. Bülau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2015, pp. 269–285.
• Modern mining history. In: Der Anschnitt , Zeitschrift für Montangeschichte , 69th year 2017, issue 3, pp. 138–151.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lars Bluma  in the catalog of the  German National Library
• Lars Bluma on the website of the Ruhr University Böchum
• Losing trust is easier than gaining it VDI blog, March 11, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruhr University Bochum press office - online editing: Bluma / CV. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2017 ; accessed on February 22, 2018 . 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.  
2. ↑ Homepage of the research project. Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Marco Secci: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/tug/mitarbeiter.html. Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Homepage Research Area Mining History. Retrieved on February 22, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Personnel. New boss for the Angel House. In: wuppertaler-rundschau.de. Retrieved February 1, 2018 . 
6. ↑ From mining to early industrialization. (No longer available online.) City of Wuppertal, February 7, 2018, archived from the original on February 23, 2018 ; accessed on February 23, 2018 . 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.