Staffan Müller-Wille

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Staffan Müller-Wille (born March 5, 1964 in Münster ) is a German-Swedish historian of science . He has published numerous articles on history, heredity, and genetics .

Life

Staffan Müller-Wille is the son of the prehistorian Michael Müller-Wille . He graduated from the Hebbelschule in Kiel and studied geology and palaeontology at the Free University of Berlin , which he completed in 1992 with a master's degree. He then took part in molecular biology projects at the University of Paris and in the North Atlantic Expedition 21 on the research vessel Meteor in the field of marine geology. He received his doctorate in history and philosophy of science in 1997 at the Institute for Science and Technology Research at Bielefeld University with a work on Carl von Linné , which was published as a book in 1999. In 1998 he worked as a scientific curator at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. Here he took part in the construction of the new permanent exhibition “The Man”. In December 2000 he became a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Here he worked closely with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger , with whom he developed a research project on the cultural history of inheritance. Müller-Wille also taught at the Technical University of Berlin and at times at the universities of Mexico City and Tel Aviv.

In October 2004 he was appointed AHRC Research Fellow in Philosophy of Biology at the ESRC Center for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter , where he has taught and researched ever since. In 2007 he became a lecturer there and in 2008 a senior lecturer.

In 2007, together with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, he published a collection of essays that dealt with the history of inheritance up to 1870. In 2009 a book was published in German with a summary of the results of the project for a broad audience.

Müller-Wille conducts research in the fields of history, philosophy and social sciences. He has dealt intensively with the history of taxonomy and the work of Linnaeus, as well as with the cultural history of heredity, races and relationships in anthropology.

In addition to these activities, Müller-Wille was Deputy Director of the Center for Genomics in Society (ESRC Center for Genomics in Society = Egenis) and member of the Center for Medical History at the University of Exeter as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences ". He is also an honorary professor at the Institute for Medical History and Science Research at the University of Lübeck . From 2005 to 2007 he was “Program Officer” of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology and from 2008 to 2012 a councilor of the British Society for the History of Science (British Society for the History of Science).

Fonts (selection)

  • Botany and worldwide trade. On the justification of a natural system of plants by Carl von Linné (1707–1778) (=  studies on the theory of biology . Volume 3 ). Publishing house for science and education, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86135-350-4 (also dissertation at Bielefeld University).
  • with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger : "Inheritance". History and culture of a biological concept. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17063-0 .
  • with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: The gene in the age of post-genomics. A history of science inventory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-26025-8 .
  • with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: A Cultural History of Heredity. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-21348-4 .

literature

  • Alexander Kraus, Alexander Wolff: More like a circus than a battery. Staffan Müller-Wille as the trainer of his own wealth of associations. In: Zeitblicke 9, No. 2, 08/27/2010, ( zeitenblicke.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita: Staffan Müller-Wille (English, PDF; 421 kB).
  2. ^ Thomas Weber: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille: Inheritance: Soon the gene will be a thing of the past . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 24, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net ).
  3. ^ Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Research at the University of Lübeck. imgwf.uni-luebeck.de, accessed on June 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Wille, Staffan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster