Ludolf von Mackensen

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Ludolf von Mackensen (born June 2, 1938 in Potsdam ) is a German technical historian and former museum director. He was the founding director of the Astronomical-Physical Cabinet in Kassel .

Life

Von Mackensen studied mechanical engineering and aircraft construction at the Technical University of Munich , but switched to the history of science and technology. In 1968 he received his doctorate in the history of science and technology with a thesis on the 4-species calculating machine by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . He then worked at the research institute of the Deutsches Museum until 1975 , where, among other things, he planned and supervised exhibitions. He has received teaching assignments from the Technical University of Munich, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Kassel. Since 1978 von Mackensen was honorary professor for the history of science at the University of Kassel . At the same time he was the "second representative of the executive director of the State Museums in Kassel".

In 1975 he went to the Staatliche Museen Kassel , where in 1992 he was the founding director of the newly opened " Museum for Astronomy and History of Technology ", which is housed in the orangery in Kassel .

Offices

Publications (selection)

  • The scientific and technical collection: history, significance and exhibition in the Kassel Orangery. Georg Wenderoth Verlag, Kassel 1991. ISBN 3-87013-025-3 .
  • More precisely than exactly: 250 years of precision measuring instruments from FW Breithaupt & Sohn in Kassel, based on archival documents, biographies and instruments in the company archive and the Hessen Kassel museum landscape. Publishing house Thiele & Schwarz, Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-87816-123-3 .

literature

  • Jürgen M. Lehmann: Biographies of the scientific staff at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Kassel 1913–1988 . In: Art in Hessen and am Mittelrhein 28, 1988, p. 164.

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personal data
SURNAME Mackensen, Ludolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam