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Gastwissenschaftler Dieter Hoffmann in Das Blättchen über den Physiker Hans-Jürgen Treder
Zum ArtikelVisiting Scholar Dieter Hoffmann in Das Blättchen on physicist Hans-Jürgen Treder
Read ArticleGenealogy and Human Heredity in Germany, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
All knowledge about human heredity is based on genealogy, but only in the nineteenth century did genealogy become the key method for the study of here
Rationality of Noise: Gathering Acoustic Information during the Cold War
This project focuses on a historical moment when noise was a political concern. During its first decades, the 1950s and 1960s, Radio Free Europe (RFE)
Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences (EMESAS)
This project investigates the geometrical concepts in Sanskrit astronomy of early modern India (c. 1500 to 1800 CE) as it engaged with Græco-Islamic i
Gardening, Fancying, and Heredity
This project investigated the relationship between geneticists in early twentieth-century Europe, animal fanciers (who bred animals to prescribed stan
Funding Institutions, Liechtenstein Funds for the History of Science
Poetry Bound: On the Notational, the Parenthetical, the Composed
While at the MPIWG, I will be working on two essays in an unfolding project on Anglophone poetics: the first, on “the notational” as a mode of poetic
Wefts of Innovation in Premodern China (13th–17th Century)
“Cloths are for all (衣被群生)” declared the Chinese statesman Ouyang Xiu歐陽修(1007–1071) once in a memorandum to the throne. Although Ouyang did not s
The Epistemic Virtues of Humanities and Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany: A Comparative Approach
My current research is part of a project in which I study the historical relation between the humanities (Geisteswissenschaften) and the sciences (Nat
Europe’s Green Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding in Central Europe, 1890–1945
Since the 1940s various programs for agricultural development in the "third world" have been funded by Western governments and foundations. Commonly r
Publications, “Politische-Okonomie der Pflanzenzucht in Deutschland, ca. 1870-1933“ [Political Economy of Plant-Breeding in Germany, ca 1870-1933], in: Susanne Heim (ed.), Autarkie und Ostexpansion: Pflanzenzucht und Agrarforschung im Nationalsozialismus, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002, pp. 14-33., Funding Institutions, Leverhulme Trust