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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Swiss Standard German: [ˈraɪnbɛrɡər]; born 12 January 1946) is a Swiss-born Liechtensteiner historian of science. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1997 to 2014. His focus areas within the history of science are the history and epistemology of the experiment, and further the history of molecular biology and protein biosynthesis. Additionally, he writes and publicizes essays and poems.
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Born in 1801, the son of a poor country pastor in Saxony, he lived from 1817 to 1887, when he died, seventy years therefore, at Leipzig, a typical _gelehrter_ of the old-fashioned german stripe. His means were always scanty, so his only extravagances could be in the way of thought, but these were gorgeous ones.
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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This friendship was the means of his removing to Frankfurt. Here, under the direction of the Elector, he engaged in remodelling Roman law so as to adapt it for German use, in writing diplomatic tracts, letters, and essays upon theological matters, and in editing an edition of Nizolius,--a now forgotten philosophical writer. One of the most noteworthy facts in connection with this edition is that Leibniz pointed out…
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
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That history is itself incarnate reason; that history is infinitely more rational than the formal abstracting and generalizing reason of individuals; that individual mind becomes rational only through the absorption and assimilation of the universal reason embodied in historic institutions and historic development, became the articles of faith of the German intellectual creed. It is hardly an exaggeration to say…
John Dewey, German philosophy and politics
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Related ideas
- History of science
- Molecular biology
- University of Tübingen
- Stanford University
- Baltimore
- Berlin
- Johns Hopkins University
- Sweden
- Jacques Derrida
- Gaston Bachelard
- Experiment
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Part of Philosophy of biology.