Biography of Johannes Wislicenus (1835-1902)

这笔赠款将支持对约翰尼斯·威斯利塞努斯(Johannes Wislicenus，1835-1902)传记的档案和图书馆研究，他是19世纪的主要化学家，其职业生涯尚未得到历史学家的广泛研究。作为PIS最近完成的关于立体化学早期历史的书的副产品，这个项目的目标是收集更多的档案和出版材料，关于威斯利塞努斯作为激进自由思想神学家古斯塔夫·威斯利塞努斯(Gustav Wislicenus，1803-1877)之子的青年时期，关于他作为失败的移民到美国的经历，关于他在哈莱大学的威廉·海因茨的职业发展，以及关于他作为苏黎世、维尔茨堡和莱比锡三个主要研究小组主任的角色。这本拟议的传记将讨论科学人格的形成、宗教和科学、19世纪化学中的原子理论，以及科学研究小组的结构和目的。完成的传记还将把威斯利塞努斯塑造成19世纪30年代出生的特定一代化学家中的一员，并将威斯利塞努斯的个人作风和教授科学的风格与他那一代人的其他化学家进行比较。因此，科学历史学家、德国历史学家和执业化学家都会对最终的传记感兴趣。

This grant will support archival and library research on a projected biography ofJohannes Wislicenus (1835-1902), a major chemist of the nineteenth century whose career has yet to receive extensive study by historians. An outgrowth of the PIs recently completed book on the early history of stereochemistry, the goal of this project is to gather additional archival and published material on Wislicenus's youth as the son of the radical free-thinking theologian, Gustav Wislicenus (1803-1877), on his experiences as a failed immigrant to America, on his professional development with Wilhelm Heintz at the University of Halle, and on his role as director of three major research groups inZurich, Wurzburg, and Leipzig. The proposed biography will discuss the formation of a scientific personality, religion and science, the atomic theory in nineteenth-century chemistry, and the structure and purpose of research groups in science. The completed biography will also frame Wislicenus as a member of a particular generation of chemists born during the 1830s, and make comparisons of Wislicenus's personal style of doing and teaching science with other chemists of his generation. The final biography will therefore be of interest to historians of science, German historians, and practicing chemists.