Mitchell Ash

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Mitchell G. Ash (born September 26, 1948 in New York City ) is an American historian , emeritus professor at the University of Vienna , scientific author and editor.

Life

Ash studied history and the history of science at Harvard University and the Free University of Berlin . He was a teaching fellow at Harvard, where he obtained his doctorate in 1982. He then worked at the University of Mainz and taught from 1984 to 1996, most recently as a professor, at the University of Iowa . After visiting professorships in Berlin , Göttingen and Vienna, he became full professor for modern history at the University of Vienna in 1997, on the chair of Günther Hamann . In 2016 he retired.

Ash's research focus is general history of science, especially the role of science and technology in history and the change of science in times of political upheaval, in particular the relationship of science to politics, society and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, scientific emigration and the history of psychology . Ash is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology series . In 1988 he became a board member of the Austrian Society for the History of Science . In 2002 he became president of the Society for the History of Science . Ash became head of the working group for the history of science at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna.

He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Upper Austrian think tank Academia Superior and a founding member of the Geschichte und Zukunft eV

Fonts (selection)

  • with Josef Ehmer : University - Politics - Society 650 years of the University of Vienna - departure into the new century. Vienna University Press, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0413-1 .
  • with Jan Surman (Ed.): The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire (1848–1918). Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-28987-1 .
  • (Ed.) Materials on the History of Psychoanalysis in Vienna after 1938 (Materials on the History of Psychoanalysis in Vienna 1938-1945). Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86099-945-5 .
  • (Ed.) Psychoanalysis in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-86099-638-6 .
  • with Wolfram Nieß and Ramon Pils (eds.): Humanities in National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna. Vienna University Press at V&R unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-568-2 .
  • (Ed.): Mensch, Tier und Zoo. The Schönbrunn Zoo in an international comparison from the 18th century to the present day. Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77614-7 .
  • with Thomas Sturm (Ed.): Psychology's Territories. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from different Disciplines. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 2006.
  • (Ed.): Universities and Sciences in National Socialism. State of research and projects in Austria. Institute for History of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2003.
  • with Christian Stifter (ed.): Science, politics and the public. From Viennese modernism to the present. Wiener Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2002.
  • with Lothar Dittrich (Ed.): Menagerie des Kaisers, Zoo der Wiener. 250 years of Schönbrunn Zoo. Pichler-Verlag, Vienna 2002.
  • (Ed.): Myth of Humboldt. Past and Future of German Universities. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-98915-5 .
  • with Alfons Söllner (Ed.): Forced Migration and Scientific Change. Emigre, German-Speaking Scientists after 1933. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1996.
  • Gestalt Psychology in German Culture 1890-1967. Holism and the Quest for Objectivity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1995. New edition 2007: ISBN 978-0-521-64627-7 . (Awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the Journal of the History of Ideas for the best book in the field of 'Intellectual History' in 1995.)
  • with William R. Woodward (Ed.): Psychology in twentieth-century thought and society. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987, ISBN 0-521-32523-4 .
  • with Ulfried Geuter (Ed.): History of German Psychology in the 20th Century. An overview. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1985, ISBN 3-531-22128-0 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Yearbook 2000. Akademie Verlag, ISBN 3-05-003603-6 , p. 43f.
  2. ↑ Mitchell Ash on the website of the Institute for History of the University of Vienna (web archive)
  3. ^ Academia Superior - Scientific Advisory Board . Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Founding members. In: Geschichte und Zukunft eV Retrieved on October 7, 2019 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Ash, Mitchell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ash, Mitchell G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City