Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator
Funding period 2019-2021
Project management: The normative structures of Egyptian and Mesopotamian sciences: A fundamental reconsideration | Research focus 3 – Frayed orders: Social cohesion under conditions of radical plurality
Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: The normativity of formal orders and procedures in antiquity – a comparison of mathematical and legal rule systems | Research field 2
Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: Mathematics and the establishment of normative orders in ancient cultures: Egypt and Mesopotamia in comparison | Research field 2
Project management: On the function of canonization in the transmission of knowledge in Mesopotamia | Research field 2
Project management: Procedural texts in the development, preservation and transmission of expert knowledge | Research field 2
Subject areas
History, Mathematics
Main research
History of the pre-Greek sciences, in particular the mathematical sciences in Egypt and Mesopotamia, transmission of knowledge in Hellenistic times, historiography of pre-Greek mathematics
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Biografische Angaben
Born in Rüsselsheim in 1970. After secondary school, studied mathematics, chemistry and Egyptology at the University of Mainz. Graduated in 1996 (first state examination), then studied Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Doctorate in the history of mathematics in 2000. Research stays in Cambridge, Mass. (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, 2000-2002) and Cambridge, England (Trinity Hall College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2002-2006). Appointment at the University of Mainz (Junior Professorship History of Mathematics) in 2006. Since January 2009 Professor of History of Science of the Pre-Modern World at the Department of History. Member of the Cluster of Excellence "Formation of Normative Orders" at the University of Frankfurt. -
Publikationen
2021 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2021): (Natur-)Wissenschaften und normative Ordnungen. Beispiele aus den frühesten Wissenschaften und ihrer Geschichte, in: Forst, Rainer; Günther, Klaus (Hrsg.), Normative Ordnungen, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 502-519. 2020 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2020): Comment: Weak Knowledge in the History and Philosophy of Ancient Science: Trajectories of Further Studies, in: Epple, Moritz/Imhausen, Annette/Müller, Frank (Hrsg), Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 143–162. Epple, Moritz; Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Müller, Frank (2020): Preface, in: Epple, Moritz/Imhausen, Annette/Müller, Frank (Hrsg), Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 9–12. Epple, Moritz; Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Müller, Frank (2020): Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Frankfurt am Main: Campus. 2018 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2018): Mathematics in Egypt, in: Keyser, Paul/Scarborough, John (Hrsg.), Oxford Handbook of Ancient Science and Medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 49–60. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2018): The Cultural Context of (Mathematical) Experts in Ancient Egpyt, in Jones, Alexander/Taub, Liba (Hrsg.), The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 101–119. Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Younansardaroud, Helen (2018): The renaissance of Syriac literature in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, in: King, Daniel (Hrsg.), The Syriac World, London und New York: Routledge, 698–717. 2017 Bawanypeck, Daliah; Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2017): „Mesopotamien und Ägypten“, in: Marianne Sommer, Staffan Müller-Wille, and Carsten Reinhardt (eds.): Handbuch Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2017: S. 108-117. 2016 Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Pommerening, Tanja (2016): Ein Methodenbuch zur Übersetzung von Wissenstexten: Gründe, Ziele, Wege und Ausblick, in: Imhausen, Annette/Pommerening, Tanja (Hrsg.), Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Methodological Aspects with Examples, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1–16. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2016): Mathematics in Ancient Egypt. A Contextual History. Princeton, Princeton University Press 2016. Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Pommerening, Tanja (eds.) (2016): Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Methodological Aspects with Examples (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 344), Berlin: De Gruyter 2016. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2016): „Zum Arbeiten mit hieratischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten“, in: Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening (eds.), Translating Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Methodological Aspects with Examples (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 344), Berlin: De Gruyter 2016, S. 281-333. 2014 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2014): „Normative structures in ancient Egyptian mathematical texts“, in: Daliah Bawanypeck and Annette Imhausen (eds.), Traditions of Written Knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Alter Orient und Altes Testamen 403). Münster: Ugarit 2014: S. 153-187. Bawanypeck, Daliah; Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2014): Traditions of Written Knowledge in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Alter Orient und Altes Testamen 403) Münster: Ugarit 2014. 2013 Fahrmeir, Andreas; Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2013): Die Vielfalt normativer Ordnungen. Konflikte und Dynamik in historischer und ethnologischer Perspektive, Normative Orders Bd. 8, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2013, 342 S. Fahrmeir, Andreas; Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2013): „Einleitung: Dynamik normativer Ordnungen – Ethnologische und historische Perspektiven“, in: Andreas Fahrmeir/Annette Imhausen (Hrsg.), Die Vielfalt normativer Ordnungen. Konflikte und Dynamik in historischer und ethnologischer Perspektive, Normative Orders Bd. 8, Frankfurt am Main, Campus 2013, S. 7-17. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2013): „Experten und die Umsetzung normativer Ordnungen im Alten Ägypten: Theorie und historisch fassbare Praxis“, in: Andreas Fahrmeir/Annette Imhausen (Hrsg.), Die Vielfalt normativer Ordnungen. Konflikte und Dynamik in historischer und ethnologischer Perspektive, Normative Orders Bd. 8, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2013, S. 49-77. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2013): „Mathematik und Mathematiker im pharaonischen Ägypten“, Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft Hamburg 33, 2013: S. 75-97. 2010 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2010): „Die Mathematisierung von Getreide im Alten Ägypten“, Mathematische Semesterberichte 57, 2010: S. 3-10. Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2010): „From the cave into reality: Mathematics and cultures“, in: Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening (eds.), Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome and Greece. Translating Ancient Scientific Texts (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 286). Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2010, S. 333-347. Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Pommerening, Tanja (2010): „Introduction: Translating ancient scientific texts.“ In: Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening (eds.): Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome and Greece. Translating Ancient Scientific Texts (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 286). Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2010, S. 1-10. Warner (Imhausen), Annette; Pommerening, Tanja (2010): Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 286), Berlin: De Gruyter 2010. 2009 Warner (Imhausen), Annette (2009): “Traditions and myths in the historiography of Egyptian mathematics”, in: Eleanor Robson und Jacqueline Stedall (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009, S. 781-800.