Uwe Hoßfeld

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Uwe Hoßfeld (2015)

Uwe Hoßfeld (born August 5, 1966 in Bad Liebenstein ) is a German biology historian , biology didactic and journalist . He is an adjunct professor for didactics of biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

biography

Uwe Hoßfeld graduated from the advanced secondary school in Sonneberg in 1985 with a high school diploma. From 1985 to 1988 he did military service in the People's Navy . From 1988 to 1994, Hoßfeld studied biology , history of science , sports science , educational science and Indonesian studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU). He finally completed a legal clerkship in Weimar and Apolda from 1993 to 1995. After the first state examination in 1993, he graduated in 1994 with a Magister Artium for the history of natural sciences and biology (MA, Philosophical Faculty) and the second state examination in 1995. Hoßfeld was admitted to the FSU in 1996 Jena with the work " Gerhard Heberer (1901-1973) - His Contribution to Biology in the 20th Century" for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. This was followed by a HEP scholarship at the Chair for Ethics in Biosciences in Tübingen ( Eve-Marie Engels ) in 1996 and a scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation at the Institute for the History of Science in Göttingen ( Nicolaas A. Rupke ) in 1997. From 1998 to 2000, Hoßfeld worked as Research associate in the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) project "Development of Ernst Haeckel's correspondence ", 2000 to 2002 as a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology ( Ernst Haeckel House ) in Jena.

From 2002 to 2006 he was a scientific assistant in the Senate Commission for the "Processing of Jena University History in the 20th Century", in the field of natural sciences and at the Ernst Haeckel House. In 2003 the habilitation for the subject “History of Natural Sciences” followed with a thesis on “Biological anthropology between politics, ideology and science, 1861-1945 with special consideration of the developments at the Jena University”.

Uwe Hoßfeld has been head of the Biology Didactics working group since the 2006/07 winter semester and an adjunct professor for biology didactics at the FSU since 2009. From 2013 to 2015 he headed a “science research laboratory” at the State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics Saint Petersburg (ITMO), from 2016 to 2017 he was a research professor there. Since 2018 he has also been PhD filosofskich nauk (Dr. sc. Phil.) For the history of science and technology at the State University in St. Petersburg .

Research interests

History of science and biology

After a trip to the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia in 1993, which served in particular to compare archival material from Gerhard Heberer's estate and to confirm important results of the so-called " Rensch Expedition" of 1927, Hoßfeld initially dealt with the History and theory of evolutionary biology in the German-speaking area as well as the history of science and universities during National Socialism and the GDR.

Since 2001 he has represented with Thomas Junker and Wolf-Ernst Reif - based on Ernst Mayr u. a. - a "synthetic Darwinism" ( synthetic evolution theory ). This is a theory of evolution that emerged between 1930 and 1950, in which the selection theory was combined with knowledge of genetics (mutation) and systematics (geographical isolation). At the same time, Hoßfeld repeatedly emphasized the importance of "biological anthropology" for evolutionary biology.

Biological- historical falsifications were made on topics such as Nikolai V. Timoféeff-Ressovsky (collaboration under National Socialism?), Ernst Haeckel (Nobel Prize, antipope, family trees), Alfred Russel Wallace (Darwin's shadow man), on alternative evolution theories (e.g. Lysenkoism , creationism ), “Generalized Darwinism” and genetics (rediscovery of Mendel's laws around 1900). Together with Lennart Olsson , Hoßfeld also worked on the history of Nature magazine in the Third Reich.

Current research is currently addressing questions of the international expansion of EvoDevo , palaeoanthropology and evolutionary biology, the history of Russian biology and Ernst Haeckel's life's work. He is one of the main authors of the Jena Declaration of the German Zoological Society .

Biology Didactics

Within this discipline, Hoßfeld is interested in questions of biological model making, the history of biological classroom collections, extracurricular learning locations and microscopy.

Science popularization and science policy

Together with the State Center for Political Education in Thuringia, Hoßfeld has published his research results on subjects such as biology and politics, Ernst Haeckel, the history of racial studies etc. in numerous books and various "sheets on Thuringia regional studies" to a broad public in a generally understandable form made accessible.

Bodies

  • Chairman of the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany (VBIO) - Regional Association of Thuringia
  • Chairman of the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology
  • Board member of the working group evolutionary biology
  • Managing director of the association "Collegium Europaeum Jenense eV"

Honors

  • 2003, 2005 and 2010: Grant for the History of Science (with Lennart Olsson) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
  • 2006: distinguished lecture in the Thuringian State Chancellery in Erfurt, plaque "Erfurter Dialog" from the Prime Minister
  • 2014: Diploma for the 2nd place as “International Laboratory for Science Research” in the nomination for the best science laboratory at ITMO University in St. Petersburg
  • 2018: corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
  • 2018: Award as juror "Jugend forscht" by the Thuringian Minister for Education, Youth and Sport and the Thuringia Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research (STIFT)

Publications

Monographs (selection)

  • with Thomas Junker : The discovery of evolution. A revolutionary theory and its history. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2001; 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 3-534-14208-X .
  • History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005; 2nd edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11238-3 .
  • with Olaf Breidbach : Haeckel correspondence. Overview of the letters in the Ernst Haeckel Archive. VWB, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86135-489-6 .
  • with Rosemarie Nöthlich, Heiko Weber, Olaf Breidbach and Erika Krauße: "Substance monism " and / or "Energetics". The correspondence between Ernst Haeckel and Wilhelm Ostwald (1910–1918). On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the German Monist Association. VWB, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-86135-490-1 .
  • with Michal Simunek: The cooperation between the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the German Charles University in Prague in the field of "race theory", 1933–1945. Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-937967-34-9 .
  • with Martin S. Fischer and Gunnar Brehm: The Phyletic Museum in Jena. Druckhaus, Gera 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811758-3-7 .
  • Biology and politics. The origin of man. State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, State Chancellery, Erfurt 2011; 2nd edition 2012; 3rd edition 2017, ISBN 978-3-946939-05-4 .
  • Institutes, money, intrigues. Rassenwahn in Thuringia, 1930 to 1945. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-943588-36-1 , ISBN 978-3-943588-70-5 (e-book).

Editorships (selection)

  • with Jürgen John , Oliver Lemuth and Rüdiger Stutz : " Combative Science". Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 .
  • with Olaf Breidbach , Ilse Jahn and Andrea Schmidt: Matthias Jacob Schleiden: Writings and lectures on anthropology. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08542-7 .
  • with Dirk Preuß and Olaf Breidbach: Anthropology after Haeckel. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08902-9 .
  • with Tobias Kaiser and Heinz Mestrup: University in Socialism. Studies on the history of the Friedrich Schiller University (1945–1990). 2 volumes, Böhlau-Verlag, Weimar u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-34505-1 .
  • with Joachim Hendel, Jürgen John, Oliver Lemuth and Rüdiger Stutz: Paths of Science. Documents on the University of Jena under National Socialism. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09006-3 .
  • with Lennart Olsson : Charles Darwin. On the evolution of species and on the development of the earth. Early writings on the theory of evolution. (= Suhrkamp Study Library , 13), Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-27013-4 .
  • with Olaf Breidbach: God-Nature (Theophysis). Annotated reprint and reprint from 1914. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-515-09163-3 .
  • Ernst Haeckel. (= absolute ), orange press, Freiburg im Breisgau 2010, ISBN 978-3-936086-40-9 .
  • with Michal Simunek, Olaf Breidbach and Miklós Müller: Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900–1930. Collection of Selected Papers, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09602-7 .
  • with Lennart Olsson, Georg S. Levit and Olaf Breidbach: Ivan I. Schmalhausen: The evolution factors. Annotated reprint of the German version, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09624-9 .
  • with Marco Steps, Lennart Olsson, Georgy S. Levit and Michal Simunek: Wilhelm Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology 1894–2004. (= Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities , 24), Prague 2011, ISBN 978-80-87378-36-6 .
  • with Michal Simunek, Florian Thümmler and Olaf Breidbach: The Mendelian Dioskuri. Correspondence of Armin with Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 1898–1951. (= Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities , 27), Prague 2011, ISBN 978-80-87378-67-0 .
  • with Michal Simunek, Florian Thümmler and Jiri Sekerak: The Letters on JG Mendel. Correspondence of William Bateson, Hugo Iltis, and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg with Alois and Ferdinand Schindler, 1902–1932. (= Studies in the History of Sciences and Humanities , 28), Prague 2011, ISBN 978-80-87378-73-1 .
  • with Ulrich Kutschera : Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913). The man in the shadow of Charles Darwin. Special Issue, Theory in Biosciences 132/4, 2013 ISSN  1431-7613 (Print) ISSN  1611-7530 (Online).
  • with Lennart Olsson : Charles Darwin. On the evolution of species and on the development of the earth. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-41960-7 .
  • with Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Heide-Lore Müller and Stephanie Wachtel: microscopy for biology lessons. Practical experiments for biological education. Carl Zeiss AG Jena, Jena 2016.
  • with Georgy S. Levit, and Petra Reinhold: Milestones from 200 years of “Thierarzney art” in Jena (1816–2016) , Verlag der DVG Service GmbH, Giessen 2016. ISBN 978-3-86345-333-6 .
  • with Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Heide-Lore Müller and Stephanie Wachtel: Microscopy for Biology Education. Practical Experiments for Education in Biology Carl Zeiss AG Jena , Jena 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information Service Wissenschaft Online: Uni Jena supports Russian excellence initiative. November 25, 2013
  2. ^ Information service science online: Successful cooperation with St. Petersburg. 23rd December 2014
  3. ↑ О признании ученой степени. Retrieved June 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Order. May 28, 2018, Retrieved June 25, 2018 (Russian).
  5. ↑ Krüger, M. & U. Hoßfeld (1999): In the footsteps of the Rensch expedition 1927: Jena biological journey to the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia at the end of the dry season 1993. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, Suppl. 3: 99–118 ; Hoßfeld, U. (2004): The travels of Jena Zoologists in the Indo-Malayan region. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55, Suppl. II No. 7: 77-105 ( online )
  6. ↑ Junker, T. & U. Hoßfeld (2001, ²2009): The discovery of evolution. A revolutionary theory and its history. Scientific Book Society Darmstadt, Kap. 6, p. 172ff. Reif, W.-E., T. Junker & U. Hoßfeld (2000): The synthetic theory of evolution: general problems and the German contribution to the synthesis . Theory in Biosciences 119 (1): 41-91.
  7. ↑ Hoßfeld, U. (2005, ²2016): History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
  8. ^ Hoßfeld, U. & M. Walker (2001): Hero or villain? Stasi archives shed light on Russian Scientist. Nature 411 (6835): 237. (on- line ); Hoßfeld, U. (2001): In the 'invisible visor': The secret service files of the geneticist Nikolaj V. Timoféeff-Ressovsky. Medizinhistorisches Journal 36 (3/4): 335-367.
  9. ↑ Hoßfeld, U .; R. Nöthlich & L. Olsson (2003): Haeckel's literary hopes dashed by materialism? Nature 424 (6951): 875 (on- line ). [Spiegel-online from August 27, 2003 ( online ). Science Online Information Service from December 4, 2009 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Hoßfeld, Uwe; Levit, Georgy S .: Phylogeny: 'Tree of life' took root 150 years ago. In: Nature. December 1, 2016, accessed on December 1, 2016 (English, press release: https://idw-online.de/de/news664407 ). Hoßfeld, U .; E. Watts; GS Levit (2017): The first phylogenetic tree of plants was defined 150 years ago. Trends in Plant Science 22 (2): 99-102, (online) , accessed January 26, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ Levit, GS; U. Hoßfeld & L. Olsson (2013): Russia embraced Wallace's works. Nature 503 (7474): 39 (on- line ); Kutschera, U. & U. Hoßfeld (2013): Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913): The forgotten co-founder of the Neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution. Theory in Biosciences 132/4: 207-214 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Hoßfeld, U. & L. Olsson (2002): From the Modern Synthesis to Lysenkoism, and back? Science 297 (5578): 55-56 ( online ); Hoßfeld, U. &. L. Olsson (2002): Documenting Lysenkoism. Science 297 (5587): 1646-1647 ( online ); Levit, GS; U. Hoßfeld & L. Olsson (2006): Russian creationists attack secular education. Nature 444 (7117): 265 ( online ), Spiegel-online of December 4, 2009 ( online ). Kolchinsky, EI; U. Kutschera; U. Hoßfeld & GS Levit (2017): Russia's new Lysenkoism. Current Biology 27 (19): 1042-1047 (on- line ). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from December 13, 2017.
  13. ↑ Uwe Hoßfeld: From Christian to Atheist: Ernst Haeckel's exit from the church in 1910 . In: Ulrich Kutschera (Ed.): Creationism in Germany. Facts and analysis . LIT, Berlin / Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9684-3 , p. 45 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  14. ↑ U. Hoßfeld, M. Simunek, M. Mielewczik: The “rediscovery” of Mendel's laws in the context of recent research , in: Nova Acta Leopoldina NF No. 413, 2017, pp. 135–153.
  15. ↑ Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hossfeld, Ulrich Witt: Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics . tape 21 , no. 4 , October 1, 2011, ISSN  0936-9937 , p. 545 , doi : 10.1007 / s00191-011-0235-3 ( springer.com [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  16. ^ Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hoßfeld: Darwin without borders? Looking at 'generalized Darwinism' through the prism of the 'hourglass model' . In: Theory in Biosciences . tape 130 , no. 4 , December 1, 2011, ISSN  1431-7613 , p. 299-312 , doi : 10.1007 / s12064-011-0138-8 ( springer.com [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  17. ^ Informationsdienst Wissenschaft Online from November 3, 2011 ( online ).
  18. ↑ Hoßfeld, U. & L. Olsson (2006): Freedom of the mind got Nature banned by Nazis. Nature 443 (7109): 271 ( online ) ¸ Hoßfeld, U. & L. Olsson (2007): Essay - Nature and Hitler. Nature ( online ); Spiegel-online from October 23, 2007 ( online ).
  19. ^ Georgy S. Levit, Uwe Hoßfeld: Major Research Traditions in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology: The Relations of Germany's Darwinism with Them . In: The Darwinian Tradition in Context . Springer, Cham, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-69121-3 , pp. 169–193 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-69123-7_8 ( springer.com [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  20. ^ Elizabeth Watts, Uwe Hossfeld, Irina Tolstikova, Georgy S. Levit: Beyond borders: on the influence of the creationist movement on the educational landscape in the USA and Russia . In: Theory in Biosciences . tape 136 , no. 1-2 , June 1, 2017, ISSN  1431-7613 , p. 31–48 , doi : 10.1007 / s12064-016-0238-6 ( springer.com [accessed January 30, 2018]).
  21. ↑ Kolchinsky, EI; U. Hoßfeld & GS Levit: Russian Scientists in the Royal Society of London: 350 years of scientific collaboration . In: Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science . tape 72 , no. 3 , 2018, p. 343–363 ( https://www.focus.de/regional/jena/friedrich-schiller-universitaet-jena-politik-stoerte-den-ausch_id_9442533.html ).
  22. ↑ Elizabeth Watts, Uwe Hoßfeld, Georgy S. Levit: Ecology and Evolution: Haeckel's Darwinian Paradigm . In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution . tape 5 , 2019, doi : 10.1016 / j.tree.2019.04.003 ( elsevier.com [accessed June 3, 2019]).
  23. ^ Information Service Wissenschaft Online from December 18, 2014 ( online ).
  24. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 30, 2011. ( online )
  25. ^ Informationsdienst Wissenschaft Online from October 9, 2012 ( online ).
  26. ^ Information Service Wissenschaft Online from February 15, 2016 ( online ).
  27. ^ Racial science and racial hygiene in the "Mustergau", 1930–1945. No. 41; Ernst Haeckel's politicization of biology. No. 54 (with O. Breidbach); "Race" pictures in Thuringia, 1863–1945. No. 63; 150 years of Haeckel's biology. No. 114. S. http://www.lzt-thueringen.de/index.php?article_id=4
  28. ↑ Board of Directors. German Society for the History and Theory of Biology V., 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  29. ↑ PDF microscopy for biology lessons. Practical experiments for biological education .
  30. ^ Brochure Microscopy for Biology Education Practical Experiments for Education in Biology. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoßfeld, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biology historian, biology didactic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Liebenstein