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Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology he name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Deutsche Gesellschaft für Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Philosophy of BioT logy) refl ects recent history as well as German tradition. Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften”, Annals of the History founded in 1910 by Leipzig University‘s Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: “We want to establish a ‘German’ society in order to gather Ger- and Philosophy of Biology man-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society…”. Yet Sudhoff, at this Volume 17 (2012) time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was “quite willing” to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and formerly Jahrbuch für “drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie with an international society”. The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specifi c set of histori- cal circumstances, and the same was true some 80 years lat- er when in 1991, in the wake of German reunifi cation, the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie” was founded. From the start, the Society has been committed to bringing stud- ies in the history and philosophy of biology to a wide audience, us- ing for this purpose its Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie. Parallel to the Jahrbuch, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie has become the by now traditional medi- Annals of the History and Philosophy Biology, Vol. 17 (2012) um for the publication of papers delivered at the Society‘s annual meetings. In 2005 the Jahrbuch was renamed Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, refl ecting the Society‘s internationalist aspir ations in addressing comparative biology as a subject of historical and DGGTB philosophical studies. ISSN: 1863-0197 Universitätsverlag Göttingen Universitätsverlag Göttingen Manuscripts should be submitted to the managing editor. Submissions will be peer reviewed. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, Volume 17 (2012) The preferred language is English. Articles in German should be accompanied by a short (max. 1000 words) summary in English. Managing Editor (from Vol. 18 on) Inhaltsverzeichnis Dr. Christian Reiß Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte 1 Gerhard Wagenitz und Hans Walter Lack Universität Regensburg Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812), ein Botanikerleben in Briefen .............1 D-93040 Regensburg Germany 2 Ekkehard Höxtermann E-mail: [email protected] Lysenkoism in East Germany - an Outline ..................................................291 3 Mats E Svensson Editors How Linnaeus classified humans: why red, white, yellow and Uwe Hoßfeld, Jena, Germany black people were assigned particular temperaments ..................................303 Lennart Olsson, Jena, Germany 4 Hans-Peter Ziemek, Gundula Zubke, et. al. Christian Reiß, Regensburg, Germany Bernhard Grzimek – Beiträge zu seiner akademischen Laufbahn, insbesondere in Bezug auf seine Tätigkeit an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen .................................................................317 Editorial Board 5 Christian Tunger, Michael Markert, Uwe Hoßfeld Ingo Brigandt, Edmonton, Canada Alte Lehrmittel neu entdeckt. – Die Wandtafelsammlung der Ariane Dröscher, Bologna, Italy Speziellen Zoologie in Jena ..........................................................................333 Eve-Marie Engels, Tübingen, Germany Nick Hopwood, Cambridge UK Thomas Junker, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Ulrich Kutschera, Kassel, Germany Georgy S. Levit, St. Petersburg, Russia Amos Morris-Reich, Haifa, Israel Staffan Müller-Wille, Exeter, UK Peter Mc. Laughlin, Heidelberg, Germany Kärin Nickelsen, München, Germany Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Berlin, Germany Marsha L. Richmond, Detroit, USA Robert Richards, Chicago, USA Nicolaas A. Rupke, Lexington, USA Hans-Konrad Schmutz, Zürich/Winterthur, Switzerland Michal Simunek, Prague, Czech Republic Georg Töpfer, Berlin, Germany Volker Wissemann, Giessen, Germany Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie (Ed.) Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology Vol. 17 (2012) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology; Volume 17 (2012) Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2015 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie (Ed.) Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology Vol. 17 (2012) formerly Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2015 Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliographie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über <http://dnb.ddb.de> abrufbar. Managing Editor of the Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology Volker Wissemann Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen Institut für Botanik AG Spezielle Botanik Heinrich-Buff-Ring 38 (Carl-Vogt-Haus MZVG) D-35390 Giessen Germany E-mail: [email protected] Cover Picture: Friedrich Besemann: Leinekanal mit akademischem Museum und Graetzelhaus. Aquarellierte Federzeichung 1860. Graphische Sammlung des Städtischen Museums Göttingen Layout: DGGTB Cover Design: Kilian Klapp, Maren Büttner © 2015 Universitätsverlag Göttingen http://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de ISSN 1863-0197 Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, Volume 17 (2012) Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Gerhard Wagenitz und Hans Walter Lack Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812), ein Botanikerleben in Briefen 1 2 Ekkehard Höxtermann Lysenkoism in East Germany - an Outline 291 3 Mats E Svensson How Linnaeus classified humans: why red, white, yellow and black people were assigned particular temperaments 303 4 Hans-Peter Ziemek, Gundula Zubke, et. al. Bernhard Grzimek – Beiträge zu seiner akademischen Laufbahn, insbesondere in Bezug auf seine Tätigkeit an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 317 5 Christian Tunger, Michael Markert, Uwe Hoßfeld. Alte Lehrmittel neu entdeckt. – Die Wandtafelsammlung der Speziellen Zoologie in Jena 333 20 years of Annals of the history and philosophy of biology – formerly Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biolo- gie The “German Society for History and Philosophy of Biology“ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, DGGTB) was founded when around 60 people got together in Jena on June 29, 19911. This was noted with great interest not only in re-unified Germany, but also abroad, and research- ers from Italy, Holland, France, the United Kingdom, the US, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein were among the 145 founding members. For a long time the society has helped to re-establish the history and philosophy of biology as a disci- pline at German universities – although a lot remains to be done. In addition, the society and its members have been active in saving collections of books, papers and other materials from departmental and private donors. A museum and archive for the history of biology, founded by Prof. A. Geus (Marburg), and now curated and housed at the Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, the Biohistoricum in Bonn, is supported by the DGGTB. From the beginning, the society wanted to communicate research results and its activites to colleagues and a wider audience. For this purpose a journal, Jahrbuch für 1 This is described in detail by Ilse Jahn and Hans Querner in the first issue of the Jahrbuch (1994) in the paper “Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie: Vorgeschichte, Aufgaben und Ziele“ (pp. 5-19). Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie was founded. In parallel, the lectures held at the annual meetings were to be published in the Biologisches Zentralblatt.2 However, because of difficulties in the collaboration with the editors of the Zentralblatt, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie were founded: "A yearbook for the history and philosophy of biology is a novel as the German Society for the History and Philosophy of Biology (DGGTB), which was founded in 1991 and - maybe also in an international comparison - has no equivalent".3 This corresponds to the situation in classical biological disciplines like zoology and botany, where there are long traditions of this type of publications as a way of communicating new results to colleagues and the general public.4 The old Jahrbuch5 was published in 9 volumes, starting in 1994, some of them thematic, and 17 vol- umes of the Verhandlungen have been published. From January 1, 2005 a new group of editors took over the Jahrbuch. The publisher also changed, and so did the name of the journal6. The present volume is the 8th volume to be printed by the Universitätsverlag Göttingen. Three editors and one Managing editor are in charge of the Annals. The editors represent different subjects and are supported by an international editorial board. In this 20th year anniversary, the publisher and editors have taken the opportunity to renew the editorial board and the managing editor. This volume is the last one coordinated by Volker Wissemann, who was the founding and managing editor in the last ten years of the Annals. It is time (from my point of view, V.W.) for a change. Please note, that from now on Dr. Christian Reiß from
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