Peter Lundgreen

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Peter Lundgreen (born April 8, 1936 in Berlin ; † August 22, 2015 ) was a German historian and professor of the history of science at Bielefeld University .

Life

Lundgreen graduated from high school in Duderstadt in 1956 and studied history , German and philosophy in Göttingen , Mainz , Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Free University of Berlin from 1956 to 1963 . In 1963 he took his first state examination and then completed his legal clerkship in the Berlin school service, which he completed in 1964 with the second exam. Until 1965 he worked as an assessor in the Berlin school service.

From 1965 to 1968 he was a research assistant at the Historical Commission in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1968 from the Free University of Berlin . After several years as a research assistant and assistant professor, he completed his habilitation in 1973. Afterwards, Lundgreen moved to Bielefeld University in 1975, initially as a research assistant in the field of science research, later as a private lecturer in the field of history, before he was finally appointed professor for the history of science in 1980. During his time in Bielefeld, he was dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy several times. From the 1992/93 winter semester to the 1996 summer semester, Lundgreen was Vice Rector for Structure, Planning and Building Matters at Bielefeld University. Since his retirement in 2001, Lundgreen lived in Göttingen and supervised various research projects at the university there.

Lundgreen has made a name for himself primarily with work on historical educational research and the history of the bourgeoisie . In addition to publications on these topics, he was co-editor of the yearbook for historical educational research from 1993 to 1998 . Lundgreen was the spokesman for the working group on data manuals on German educational history . In the area of ​​the history of the bourgeoisie, he was jointly responsible for the Bielefeld Collaborative Research Center 177, Social History of the Modern Bourgeoisie , of which he was spokesman between 1996 and 2000.

Works (selection)

  • The staff at the universities in the Federal Republic of Germany 1953-2005 , with the collaboration of Gudrun Schwibbe and Jürgen Schallmann (= data handbook on the German history of education , vol. 10), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009.
  • Vocational schools and universities in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–2001 , with the collaboration of Jana Scheunemann and Gudrun Schwibbe (= data handbook on the history of German education , vol. 8), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008.
  • (Ed.), Educational Participation. Growth patterns and opportunity structures 1800–2000 , Wiesbaden 2006.
  • (Ed.), Social and cultural history of the bourgeoisie. A balance sheet of the Bielefeld Collaborative Research Center (1986–1997) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000.
  • Scientific research as a way out of political conflict? Quality control of railway material in Prussia (1876–1889) , Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1999.
  • (Ed.), Reform University Bielefeld 1969–1994, Between Defensive and Innovation , Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1994.
  • (Ed.), Engineers in Germany 1770–1990 , Campus, Frankfurt / Main 1994.
  • (with Margret Kraul and Karl Ditt ), Educational Opportunities and Social Mobility in Urban Society in the 19th Century , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.
  • (Ed. With Karl-Ernst Jeismann ), Handbuch der deutschen Bildungsgeschichte . Volume 3: 1800-1870. From the reorganization of Germany to the founding of the German Empire , CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-406-32385-0 .
  • (with Bernd Horn et al.), State Research in Germany 1870–1980 , Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1986.
  • Standardization - testing - regulation. Studies in the history of the science based regulatory state (Germany and the USA, 19th and 20th centuries) , Kleine, Bielefeld 1986.
  • (Ed.), Science in the Third Reich , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985 (6th edition, 1990).
  • An overview of the social history of the German school , 2 volumes, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1980/81.
  • (with Günter Küppers and Peter Weingart ), environmental research, the controlled science? An empirical study on the relationship between science development and science policy , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • (Ed.), On the relationship between science and technology. Knowledge goals and rules for generating academic and technical knowledge. Lecture texts from a conference , Bielefeld 1976.
  • Technicians in Prussia during early industrialization. Education and occupational field of an emerging social group . With an introduction by Otto Büsch , Colloquium, Berlin 1975.
  • Education and economic growth in the industrialization process of the 19th century. Methodological approaches, empirical studies and international comparisons . With a foreword by Wolfram Fischer , Colloquium, Berlin 1973.
  • The English appeasement policy up to the Munich Agreement. Requirements, conception, implementation , Colloquium, Berlin 1969.

Festschrift

  • History of Science Today . Festschrift for Peter Lundgreen. Edited by Jürgen Büschenfeld, Heike Franz and Frank-Michael Kuhlemann , Bielefeld 2001.

literature

  • Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. A bio-bibliographical directory , Cologne 2004, pp. 208–211.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary . In: Göttinger Tageblatt , August 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lundgreen, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 2015