Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke

Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke ( born January 22, 1944) is a Dutch historian of science.

Life

Rupke studied biology and geology at the University of Groningen and geology and history of science at Princeton and Oxford. He began his academic career as a marine geologist. When he received a 1977 Research Centre for the History of Science at Wolfson College, Oxford, he moved to this area of ​​expertise. He had in the aftermath held a number of similar international research centers, until he took over in 1993 a professor of medicine and (since 1997) History of Science at the University of Göttingen. Rupke 2009 was awarded a professorship Lower Saxony for History of Science. Since January 2012, Rupke is " Johnson Professor of History " at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia (USA).

Rupke is the author of studies on the history of biology, geology and the relationship between science and religion in the 19th and early 20th centuries. On the basis of his interest in a biographical approach, he rehabilitated several scientists of this period, by reconstructing their contemporary significance, most notably Richard Owen, who even before the appearance of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species a naturalistic, albeit non- Darwinian theory of evolution developed.

Then Rupke research on Alexander von Humboldt and the developed what he called metabiograpischen approach by examining how a famous life - can be told in multiple ways and redesigned as part of different belief systems and commemorative cultures - in this case, Humboldt.

He is currently working on a series of non - Darwinian evolutionary biologists of the 19th and 20th century - about the structuralist tradition in biology - starting with the Göttingen medical professor Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

Rupke is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2001) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.

Publications (selection )

  • With Daniel J. Stanley: Distinctive Properties of Turbiditic and Hemipelagic Mud Layers. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1974.
  • The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983; ISBN 978-0198229070.
  • ( Ed.), Vivisection in Historical Perspective. Croom Helm, London, 1987; Routledge, 1988; ISBN 978-0415050210 -
  • (Ed. ): Science, Politics and the Public Good. Macmillan, London, 1988; ISBN 978-0333441596.
  • (Ed.): Medical Geography in Historical Perspective. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London 2000; ISBN 978-0854840724.
  • Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin ( rev. ed by Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist, Yale, New Haven and London, 1994) University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2009; ISBN 978-0226731773.
  • Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography ( rev. ed ). University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2008; 978-0226731490.
  • ( Ed.), Eminent Lives in Twentieth - Century Science and Religion ( rev. ed and greatly expanded ). Lang, Frankfurt q.s. 2009; ISBN 978-3631581209.
  • (Ed., with Norbert Elsner ): Albrecht von Haller in Göttingen of the Enlightenment. Wallenstein, Göttingen 2009; ISBN 978-3835305731.
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