Michael Engel (science historian)
Michael Engel , actually Peter-Michael Engel , (* 1941 in Berlin ; † March 3, 2011 ibid), was a German chemist, librarian, science historian and publisher. He worked for a long time as a librarian and head of the archive at the Free University of Berlin and wrote a story about Dahlem , among other things .
Life
Engel studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1975 from the FU with a thesis on the "properties of the metavanadate ion in binary and ternary solutions". He then completed training as a librarian at the university library of the Free University of Berlin. In 1979 he became library councilor and later senior library councilor for the fields of medicine, pharmacy, biology and chemistry. Since 1973 he had a teaching position for "History of Chemistry" at the chemistry department of the Free University of Berlin. Later he was head of the university archive of the university library of the Free University of Berlin from 2000. In 1991 he founded the “Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Berlin”, which mainly published works on the history of science. His wife Brita Engel also published on the history of chemistry in Berlin and edited several volumes in the publishing house.
Publications (selection)
- History of Dahlem , Berlin: Berlin-Verlag Spitz 1984, ISBN 978-3-87061-155-2 .
- Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century: Towards an International Science; Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734) on the 250th anniversary of his death (exhibition May 29 - July 7, 1984), Preuss State Library. Cultural possession / [exhibition a. Catalog: Michael Engel], Wiesbaden: Reichert 1984, ISBN 978-3-88226-220-9
- Four centuries of chemistry in Berlin - Volume 1., The development of chemistry and its border areas in Berlin from the 16th century to the foundation of the Berlin University in 1810 , Berlin (Wilmersdorf): M. Schneider 2012
Web links
- Bernhard Fechner: Dr. Michael Engel is the new head of the university archive. The virtues of care and maintenance FU-Nachrichten of May 18, 2000
- Michael Engel passed away. Former head of the university archive opened the holdings to anyone interested , fu-berlin.de from March 16, 2011
- Literature by and about Michael Engel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angel, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engel, Peter-Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, historian and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2011 |
| Place of death | Berlin |