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Bausteine zu einer Oral History der Wissenschaftsgeschichte Auf der Suche: von der Biologie und der Philosophie zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Interview mit Soraya de Chadarevian. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Wie kann man einen historischen Blick auf das eigene Fach werfen? Diese Frage ist nicht einfach zu beantworten – will man einerseits nicht in einer Nabelschau und Hagiographie enden, andererseits aber auch keinen umfassenden Entwurf einer zukünftigen Historiographie vorlegen.
de Chadarevian S, Grote M, Te Heesen A.
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A Romantic Genius? The Experience of Knowledge that Shaped Werner Heisenberg's Scientific Persona. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
In 1976, the year that Werner Heisenberg passed away, Armin Hermann published a short biography, titled Werner Heisenberg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Since then, historians and biographers have offered their accounts on Heisenberg's life and his contributions to modern physics. Many of these biographies present Heisenberg as a genius.
Schaa E.
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Becoming Natural: The Naturalization of Synthetic Flavors in the Twentieth Century and the Introduction of Konsumstoff

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 303-319, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Is it possible that non‐natural chemical substances become natural without changing their chemical, physical or physiological characteristics? The history of synthetic flavors with a special emphasis on vanillin suggests that yes, it is possible.
Paulina S. Gennermann
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The end of bamboo houses in northern Laos

American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 611-622, September 2023., 2023
Abstract While we know much about the beginnings of houses, we rarely know about their endings. Yet, to understand the temporality of houses and the entanglement of the biographies of houses and their residents, the analysis of their endings is particularly relevant.
Rosalie Stolz
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The afterlife goes on: The biographical consequences of women's engagement in the 2011 Egyptian uprising

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 380-396, Fall 2022., 2022
Abstract What are some of the effects of women's participation in the 2011 Egyptian uprising on their personal biographies? A small body of feminist scholarship has examined how gender mediates the consequences of social movement participation for women.
Nermin Allam
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NEUE MENSCHEN, NEUE POETEN: EXPRESSIONISMUS, GENIE UND ARBEITERDICHTUNG

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 430-447, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT While the German Expressionists announced an end to bourgeois art, hopes of a literary revolution also rose in the labour movement. Since the 1910s, worker poets, such as Gerrit Engelke and Karl Bröger; literary critics, such as Julius Bab; and leading political figures of the Social Democratic Party such as Clara Zetkin, proclaimed a poetical
Annika Hildebrandt
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NACH DEM SCHICKSAL: NAPOLEON BEI HEINE UND TOLSTOJ

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 378-393, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT The article uses the contrast between Heinrich Heine and Tolstoyʼs descriptions of Napoleon to explore the paradigm shift from artistic to political figures in nineteenth‐century models of genius. Departing from a brief sketch of five fundamental elements of eighteenth‐century genius aesthetics, it outlines how poetic genius (personified by ...
Jan Niklas Howe
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ERMÄCHTIGUNG DES PUBLIKUMS UND ENTMÄCHTIGUNG DES KÜNSTLERS: GENIEDISKURSE DER NACHROMANTIK MIT BLICK AUF DEN FRÜHEN MOZARTKULT UND GRILLPARZER

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 341-364, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT The article discusses aspects of the dialectics of genius cults in the nineteenth century, using examples of Mozart's reception: the unveiling of the Salzburg memorial statue in 1842, Franz Grillparzer's texts on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his son Franz Xaver, as well as the artist's novella Der arme Spielmann.
Werner Michler
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GENIE UND KLASSE: ROBERT BURNS UND DIE WIENER SOZIALDEMOKRATIE UM 1900

German Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 410-429, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT Retrospective accounts of the life and works of Robert Burns offer us examples of how ‘genius’ functioned in the nineteenth century, not only as a concept of inspired, natural authorship but also as a way of establishing and stabilising class identity and belonging.
Paul Keckeis
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Religious Controversy in Comparative Context: Ulster, the Netherlands and South Africa in the 1920s

History, Volume 106, Issue 371, Page 429-455, July 2021., 2021
Abstract This article introduces a comparative element to the study of the fundamentalist–modernist controversies of the late 1920s, demonstrating that similar ideas are manifested differently in different spatial contexts. Although fundamentalism is primarily considered an American phenomenon, the article argues that the concerns animating ...
Stuart Mathieson, Abraham C. Flipse
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