Wolfgang Schreier

Wolfgang Schreier (born November 27, 1929 in Leipzig ) is a German physicist and historian who specializes in the history of the natural sciences , especially physics.

Wolfgang Schreier was a research assistant from 1969 to 1975 and then until 1987 senior research assistant at the Karl Sudhoff Institute for the History of Medicine and Natural Sciences at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In November 1970 he did his doctorate in Leipzig at the Physics section with the work Historical-Critical Comparison of the Development Lines of Electrodynamics up to the Structure of Electromagnetic Light Theory. A contribution to the structural change in physics in the 19th century by Hans Wußing . The PhD B followed in June 1984 with the paper On the interrelationships between physics, especially electrophysics, and emerging electrical engineering during the expansion of the industrial revolution (1820 to 1870). A study on the early scientific and technical progress in the run-up to electrification . In 1987 Schreier became an associate professor for the history of natural sciences, and in 1992 lecturer at the University of Leipzig. His biography of Thomas Alva Edison saw four editions in the GDR, his history of physics three editions before and after the fall of the Wall .

Fonts

• Thomas Alva Edison. (= Biographies of outstanding natural scientists, technicians and medical professionals , Volume 23), Teubner, Leipzig 1976.
• Editor: Biographies of important physicists. A collection of biographies. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1984.
• History of physics. A demolition. DVW, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00094-4 .
• The emergence of radio technology. Deutsches Museum, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-924183-35-X .

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 548.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schreier in the catalog of the German National Library