Marianne Klemun

Marianne Klemun (born April 9, 1955 in Ruden ) is an Austrian historian and associate professor at the University of Vienna .

education

Klemun attended elementary school in Rinkenberg between 1963 and 1966 and then graduated from high school in Klagenfurt from 1967 . She passed her Matura in 1974 and began studying history and German at the University of Vienna in 1974 . In addition, she also took courses in psychology, art history, and biology and geology. In 1982 she completed her basic studies with a graduation in teaching for German and history, and in 1992 she received her doctorate. phil. at the University of Vienna.

Professional and academic career

Between 1976 and 1982 Klemun worked alongside her studies as a teacher in adult education and taught “German for non-native speakers” at evening schools, in adult education centers and in a prison. In addition, between 1977 and 1982 she gave further training courses in “German for non-native speakers” in Nuremberg and other places. In 1978 she became a study assistant and then an assistant at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna, and in 1982 she spent her probationary year at a grammar school in Vienna. Between 1986 and 1992 she did research stays in Klagenfurt, Graz , Ljubljana , Trieste , Munich , Berlin , London and Sibiu . After completing her doctorate, Klemun became an assistant professor at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna in 1992, and in 1997 she became a board member of the Austrian Society for the History of Science and, from 1997 to 2004, equal treatment officer at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Klemun completed his habilitation in 2002 and became an associate professor at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna. She has been an elected member of the "International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences" (INHIGEO) since 2004, was the equal treatment officer of the Faculty of History and Culture from 2004 to 2006 and an elected member of the Commission for the History of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Medicine from 2005 to 2013 Austrian Academy of Sciences . In addition, from 2006 to 2012 she served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, was Visiting Professor in Jena in 2007 and Elected Councilor of "The History of Earth Science Society" at HESS from 2009 to 2010. In addition, she was a member of the Nominating Committee of HESS between 2011 and 2012 and deputy director of the Institute for History from 2011 to 2012. In August 2016 she was elected Secretary General of INHIGEO (International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences) for the term of office from 2016-2020 in Cape Town (South Africa) (www.inhigeo.com)

In 1998 Klemun conceived and organized the exhibition “Werkstatt Natur” in the State Museum of Carinthia and in 2000 created the scientific concept and organized the exhibition “200 years - the first Großglockner ascents” in Carinthia. In addition, from 2012 to 2013 she was co-curator of the exhibition “Learned Objects” at the Austrian Museum of Folklore . Klemun's research focuses on natural research in a cultural context, the history of science and cultural studies, the history and culture of natural history (gardens, museums, scientific associations), the history of botany (travel, expeditions, plant transfer, practices), the history of earth sciences (geology and politics) as well as the natural sciences in the local context (Carinthia, Transylvania).

Works (selection)

Selected works (sorted by year of publication):

• Marianne Klemun (ed.): On the history of the natural science association for Carinthia (= workshop nature). Special issue of Carinthia II , Klagenfurt 1998.
• Marianne Klemun: ... confer with Madame Sonne. The Großglockner expeditions in 1799 and 1800 (= The Carinthian State Archives. 25). Klagenfurt 2000.
• Marianne Klemun: The "rare Alpine children" of the Großglockner - on the botany of an "Alpine" region in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Carinthia II. 193/113. Year, Klagenfurt 2003, pp. 217-254 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Marianne Klemun, Veronika Hofer (ed.): Image functions in the sciences (= Viennese magazine for the history of modern times. 1/07). 2007.
• Marianne Klemun (Hrsg.): Wissenschaft und Kolonialismus (= Viennese magazine for the history of the modern times. 2/09). Studies Verlag, 2009.
• Marianne Klemun, Peter Tropper : The journey itself has its peculiarities. The report on the visitation of Cardinal Salm in the Gail and Lesach valleys in 1817 (= archive for patriotic history and topography. 103). Klagenfurt 2011.
• Marianne Klemun, Ana Carneiro (Eds.): Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences (= Centaurus, An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects, Vol. 53, Issue 2) . 2011.
• Thomas Hofmann, Marianne Klemun (ed.): The Imperial and Royal Geological Institute in the first decades of its activity. New approaches and research questions (= reports of the Federal Geological Institute. 95). Vienna 2012.

• Marianne Klemun (Guest Editor): Moved Natural Objects. Spaces in Between (= Host Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Spring, 2012) online-journal: http://johost.eu/ .

• Matthias Beitl, Fritz Blakolmer, Martina Fuchs, Marianne Klemun, Hubert Szemethy (eds.): Scheme objects? - Paths to Knowledge. From the collections of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Löcker Verlag, Vienna 2013 (on the occasion of the exhibition in the Austrian Museum of Folklore).
• Marianne Klemun, Hubert D. Szemethy, Fritz Blakolmer, Martina Fuchs: 1365 - 2015 - 2065. Somewhat different stories from the University of Vienna. Böhlau / Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015.
  This volume has also been published in English translation: “Once there was a student”: Other Stories of the University of Vienna. Böhlau / Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2015.
• Marianne Klemun: Unity and Diversity. Franz Ungers (1800–1870) Concepts of Nature Research in an International Context. Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0484-1 .

• Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring (ed.): Scientific Expeditions as Experiments. Palgrave & Macmillan, London / New York / Melbourne 2016.
• Marianne Klemun, Helga Hühnel: Nikolaus Jacquin (1727–1817) - a natural scientist (he) finds himself. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8471-0710-1 .

Web links

• Page at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna
• Biographical data on club-carriere.com