Thomas Junker

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Thomas Junker (2012)

Thomas Junker (born July 15, 1957 in Munich ) is a German biology historian and non-fiction author . As a publicist , he achieved notoriety primarily through his commitment against creationism .

Life

Junker studied pharmacy at the University of Freiburg from 1978 to 1982 and was licensed as a pharmacist in 1983 . After completing his doctoral studies on the history of natural sciences at the University of Marburg , he received his doctorate in 1989 under Rudolf Schmitz on the topic of some 19th century botanists in their relationship to the emerging Darwinism . Between 1992 and 1995 he worked on the Correspondence of Charles Darwin project at the University of Cambridge , most recently as Associate Editor. At the same time he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with Ernst Mayr at Harvard University between 1993 and 1995 .

From 1996 to 2002 Junker was a research assistant at the chair for "Ethics in Biosciences" at the University of Tübingen . At the same time, between 1997 and 2001, he was managing director of the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology . After his habilitation in the history of natural sciences at the University of Tübingen in 2001, he initially worked as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen at the Institute for the History of Science, from 2003 as a private lecturer at the University of Tübingen, where he has been an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Biology since 2006 .

From 2002 to 2012 Junker was Deputy Chairman of the “ Evolutionary Biology Working Group ”, and since 2013 he has been a member of its new advisory board. From 2007 to 2014 he was Scientific Advisory Board member of the evolutionary-humanistic Giordano Bruno Foundation .

Fonts

  • Darwinism and Botany: Reception, Criticism, and Theoretical Alternatives in 19th Century Germany. Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag, 1989 (dissertation, University of Marburg, 1989); 2nd, corrected and supplemented edition: The Darwinism dispute in German botany: Evolution, philosophy of science and world view in the 19th century. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-1321-7 .
  • with Marsha Richmond: Charles Darwin's correspondence with German naturalists: A calendar with table of contents, biographical register and bibliography (= Acta biohistorica. Vol. 1). Marburg: Basilisken-Presse, 1996, ISBN 3-925347-39-9 .
  • with Uwe Hoßfeld : The discovery of evolution: A revolutionary theory and its history. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2001, ISBN 3-534-14208-X ; 2nd, revised and corrected edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-534-22394-7 .
  • The second Darwinian revolution: history of synthetic Darwinism in Germany 1924 to 1950 (= Acta biohistorica. Vol. 8). Marburg: Basilisken-Presse, 2004, ISBN 3-925347-67-4 (habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, 2001).
  • History of biology: The science of life (= CH Beck knowledge ). Munich: CH Beck, 2004, ISBN 3-406-50834-0 .
  • The evolution of man (= CH Beck knowledge ). Munich: CH Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-53609-3 ; 2nd, revised edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53609-0 .
  • Creation versus evolution - and no end? Cardinal Schönborn's Intelligent Design Campaign and the Catholic Church . In: Ulrich Kutschera (Ed.): Creationism in Germany. Facts and analysis . LIT, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9684-3 , p. 71–97 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - complete, PDF 351 kB ).
  • Creationists explain evolution: The “critical textbook” by R. Junker and S. Scherer. In: Martin Neukamm (Hrsg.): Evolution in the crosshairs of creationism. Darwin's religious opponents and their argumentation (= religion, theology and natural science. Vol. 19). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-56941-2 , pp. 321–338.
  • with Sabine Paul: The Darwin Code. Munich: CH Beck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-40658489-3 .
  • The 101 Most Important Questions - Evolution. Munich: CH Beck, 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62202-1 .
  • The evolution of the imagination: how man became an artist. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7776-2180-7 .
  • The Hidden Nature of Love: Sex and Passion and How to Find the Right One. Munich: CH Beck, 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69789-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Kutschera , Uwe Hoßfeld : Ten Years Working Group (AK) Evolutionary Biology in the German Association of Biologists. In: Rudolstadt natural history writings. Vol. 18 (2012), pp. 19-26.
  2. ^ Board of Directors / Advisory Board , website of the Evolutionary Biology Working Group, accessed on July 2, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Junker, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and biology historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich