- Anneliese Maier
Anneliese Maier (
November 17 1905 inTübingen ,Germany –December , 1971 inRome ,Italy ) was a German historian of science.Biography
Anneliese Maier was the daughter of the philosopher Heinrich Maier (1876–1933). She studied
natural sciences andphilosophy from 1923 to 1926 at the universities in Berlin and Zurich. In 1930 she finished her dissertation on Kant ("Kants Qualitätskategorien"). She then worked for thePrussian Academy of Sciences . In 1936 she moved toRome . There she worked until 1945 at theBiblioteca Apostolica Vaticana on thephilosophy of nature . In 1951 Maier became an honorary professor. She became a member of the Academies of Sciences in (1949), Göttingen (1962) and Munich (1966). In 1966 she received theGeorge Sarton Medal for her profound studies on the history of natural philosophy in theMiddle Ages .Writings (selection)
English
* "On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Maier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy", Steven D. Sargent, ed. and trans. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).German
* "Kants Qualitätskategorien", 1930.
* "Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes im 17. Jahrhundert", 1938.
* "Studien zur Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik", 5 parts, 1949–1958.
* "Ausgehendes Mittelalter: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geistesgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts", 3 volumes, 1964–1977.Secondary Literature
*Annette Vogt, "Von Berlin nach Rom - Anneliese Maier (1905-1971)", in "MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte" (ed.), Steiner Vlg., Stuttgart 2004, pp. 391-414.
External links
*PND|118781286
* [http://www.idih.org/wiki/Anneliese_Maier "International Dictionary of Intellectual Historians"]
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