September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Wilhelm Füßl, Allgemein.
What Remains Is What Should Remain: Using Estates to Construct Biographies. Estates play a major role in historical research, especially biographic research, for they supplement the official writings surrounding the individual view of a historical figure. But they nonetheless reflect only a small part of the scientific and private activities of a researcher. Moreover, before being handed over to an archive, they are also often filtered by the researchers themselves, by family members, and/or by successors to the historical figure’s post. The history of an estate is thus of great importance to research. With an eye to the estates of natural scientists, the present text uses a concept of estates that includes not only the surviving texts but also artifacts with which the scientists worked. The focus will be on three physicists – Ernst Mach, Walther Gerlach, and Philipp Lenard – in order to investigate the significance of these objects for their respective biographies and for the history of physics.
September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Ulrike Enke, Allgemein.
Behring’s Personal Papers – Behring’s Lives. The article wants to show the connection between the enriched personal papers of Emil von Behring (1854–1917) in the Behring archives in Marburg (established in 1927) and the history of the first biography of the scientist, which was published by Heinz Zeiss and Richard Bieling during Nazi era in 1940. One focus is placed on Behring’s widow Else von Behring (1876–1936), who was active in arranging Behring’s papers in proper order and in searching a biographer of her husband’s life. The paper also presents new discoveries from the Behring Works archives in Marburg which show Behring – founder of the serum therapy and first winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901 – as an entrepreneur who was fighting for control and influence in the field of science and of business: maybe another narration of Behring’s life.
September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Gesa Finke, Allgemein.
Constanze Mozart’s Activities as Trustee of the Estate in the Context of Memorial Cultures around 1800. After Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s death in 1791, Constanze Mozart established memorial practices to bring her husband’s name and his music into the musical canon. At first she organized concerts to promote his name and music. She continued by publishing his compositions with Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and Johann Anton André between 1798 and 1802. Many years later, in 1828, she published a biography with her second husband, Georg Nikolaus Nissen. Her actions gained importance with the occurrence of bourgeois musical memorial cultures around 1800. These started to be organized around the musical estates of composers. Thus, the material quality of music became a dominant factor for organizing musical culture, and historiography as a whole within the nineteenth century. However, the activities of Constanze Mozart, as of other widows, have been marginalized. Memory is intertwined with gender constructions and processes of professionalization of musical historiography in the nineteenth century. The theoretical framework of memory research offers a vocabulary to analyze activities of widows in musical cultures and requires the deconstruction of the narrative of the “composer’s widow”. It also offers a way to highlight the importance of individual commitment for processes of cultural memory.
September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Norbert W. Paul, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201401699
September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201490003
September 12, 2014, 8:40 am, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1002%2Fbewi.201490002
September 12, 2014, 3:30 am, Jodok Troy, Allgemein.
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Ahead of Print.
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September 12, 2014, 1:00 am, Eckhardt Fuchs, Allgemein.
Volume 50, Issue 6, December 2014, pages 737-755<br/>10.1080/00309230.2014.952749<br/>Eckhardt Fuchs
September 12, 2014, 1:00 am, Iveta Ķestere, Allgemein.
Volume 50, Issue 6, December 2014, pages 844-851<br/>10.1080/00309230.2014.948010<br/>Iveta Ķestere
September 11, 2014, 8:00 pm, Eurozine journals, Allgemein.
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/dilemaveche/issue/2014-09-11.html