Moritz Epple

SONY DSC

Projects and positions at the research center
Principal Investigator

Funding period 2012-2017
Project management: The normativity of formal knowledge: exact sciences, equality and situated universalism in the 18th century | Research field 2

Funding period 2007-2012
Project management: The scientific culture of the Enlightenment and the justification of normative orders | Research field 2

Specializations
History of science

Main research
History of the mathematical sciences of the 18th – 20th centuries in a scientific, cultural and political context

• Biografische Angaben

  Since 2016: Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2015-2019: Deputy Spokesperson, Collaborative Research Center 1095 "Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes", German Research Foundation (DFG) 2015: Media Prize for the exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", German Mathematical Society 2008-2010: Project "Between Modernism and Application: A Comparative Approach to Mathematical Research Culture in the Early 1900's", German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF) 2007-2017: Sub-project "The scientific culture of the Enlightenment and the justification of normative orders", Cluster of Excellence (EXC) 243, DFG 2004-2008: Deputy spokesperson, SFB 435 "Knowledge Culture and Social Change", DFG 2003-2010: "Aerodynamic research hybrids" project, DFG Awards and memberships conferred Since 2003: Professor of History of Science and Head of the working group "History of Science in the Modern Age", Department of History, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 2002-2003: Professor of History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart 2000-2002: Heisenberg Fellowship, DFG 2000: Visiting researcher, research program "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism", Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin 1999: Senior Research Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA 1998: Habilitation in the history of mathematics and the natural sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1992-1999: Research Assistant for the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 1991: Doctorate in mathematical physics, University of Tübingen 1988-1992: Research Assistant for Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Institute, University of Tübingen 1987: Diploma in physics, state examination in philosophy and physics, University of Tübingen Until 1987: Studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Tübingen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and King's College London, London, UK

• Publikationen

  2022 Epple, Moritz (2022): "'Analogies,''Interpretations,''Images,''Systems,'and 'Models': Some Remarks on the History of Abstract Representation in the Sciences Since the Nineteenth Century." Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 279-307. 2021 Moritz Epple (ed.) (2021): Felix Hausdorff. Collected Works, Volume IV: Geometry, Space and Time. Berlon: Springer. 2020 Epple, Moritz/ Warner (Imhausen), Annette/ Müller, Frank (2020): Preface. In: Epple, Moritz/ Imhausen, Annette/ Müller, Frank (eds.): Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 9-12. Epple, Moritz (2020): The Theaetetus Problem: Some Remarks Concerning a History of Weak Knowledge. In: Epple, Moritz/ Imhausen, Annette/ Müller, Falk (eds.): Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 19-40. Epple, Moritz/ Warner (Imhausen), Annette/ Müller, Frank (eds.) (2020): Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. 2018 Comtesse, Dagmar/ Epple, Moritz (2018): Between Appropriation and Rejection: Translating D'Alembert into German, and D'Alembert on Translation, in: Centaurus. Epple, Moritz (2018): Four remarks "on the state of the history of science in Germany", in: Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 41 (4), 345-349. 2016 Epple, Moritz/ Fried, Johannes/ Gross, Raphael/ Gudian, Janus (eds.) (2016): "Politisierung der Wissenschaft": Jüdische, völkische und andere Wissenschaftler an der Universität Frankfurt am Main vor und nach 1933. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2015 Epple, Moritz (2015): An Introduction to the Exhibition "Transcending Tradition". In: Epple, Moritz/ Korey (ed.), 5-9. Epple, Moritz/ Korey, Michael (2015): Turmoil and Transition: Tracing Emigré Mathematicians in the Twentieth Century, in: The Mathematical Intelligencer, 37 (1), 4-44. Epple, Moritz (2015): Ulikhet, grenser og alliansen mellom de lærde og de store: Utidssvarende betraktninger fra en encyclopedist, in: ARR - Idéhistorisk Tidsskrift, 4, (Liv, Arr, idéhistorie: Festtidskrift til Espen Schaanning), 27-49. 2013 Epple, Moritz (2013): Article "Mathematics". In: Diner, Dan/ Metzler, J. B. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture, Vol. 4, Stuttgart: Metzler, 82-88. Comtesse, Dagmar/ Epple, Moritz (2013): On the way to a revolution of the mind? Jean d'Alembert as a test case. In: Fahrmeir, Andreas/ Imhausen, Annette (eds.): The diversity of normative orders. Conflicts and Dynamics in Historical and Ethnological Perspective, Normative Orders vol. 8, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 21-47. Epple, Moritz/ Hoff Kjeldsen, Tinne/ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2013): From 'Mixed' to 'Applied' Mathematics: Tracing an Important Dimension of Mathematics and its History. In: Epple, Moritz/ Hoff Kjeldsen, Tinne/ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (eds.): Oberwolfach Reports 10/1, 657-660. 2011 Epple, Moritz (2011): Between Timelessness and Historiality: On the Dynamics of the Epistemic Objects of Mathematics, in: Isis, 102, 481-493. Epple, Moritz (2011): Sphere. In: Dept. III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (ed.): A Natural History for the 21st Century: Hommage à Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Berlin: MPIWG, 253-255. Bergmann, Birgit/ Epple, Moritz/ Ungar, Ruti (eds.) (2011): Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture. Heidelberg: Springer. 2010 Epple, Moritz (2010): Commentary on the Natural and Technical Sciences Section. In: Orth, Karin/ Oberkrome, Willi (eds.): Die deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1920-1970: Forschungsförderung im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik, Wiesbaden: Steiner, 211-218. Epple, Moritz (2010): Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices. In: Epple, Moritz/ Zittel, Claus (eds.), Science as Cultural Practice. Vol. 1: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes, Akademie Verlag, Berlin: 221-245. Epple, Moritz/ Schmaltz, Florian (2010): Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. In: Gruß, Peter/ Rürup, Reinhard (eds.): Denkorte. Max Planck Society and Kaiser Wilhelm Society: Ruptures, Continuities, Memories 1911-2011. Dresden: Sandstein, 137-145. Epple, Moritz/ Remmert, Volker/ Schappacher, Norbert (2010): Mini-Workshop: History of Mathematics in Germany, 1920-1960. In: Epple, Moritz/ Remmert, Volker/ Schappacher, Norbert (eds.): Oberwolfach Reports 7, 109-140. Epple, Moritz/ Zittel, Claus (eds.) (2010): Science as Cultural Practice, Vol. 1: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Epple, Moritz (2010): On the notation of topological objects. Interview by Karin Krauthausen. In: Krauthausen, Karin/ Nasim, Omar W. (Eds.): Noting, Sketching. Writing and drawing as a process of design. Zurich/ Berlin: Diaphanes, 119-138. 2009 Epple, Moritz (2009): Calculation, Measurement, and Leadership: War Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937-1945. In: Heim,Susanne/ Sachse, Carola/ Walker, Mark (eds.): The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 283-311. Epple, Moritz (2009): Cultures of research: Mathematics and modernity at the beginning of the 20th century. In: Fried, Johannes/ Stolleis, Michael (eds.): Wissenskulturen: Über die Erzeugung und Weitergabe von Wissen. Frankfurt am Main: Camjpus, 125-158. Epple, Moritz (2009): Spaces of thought: Felix Hausdorff and Paul Mongré. In: Schwarz, Astrid/ Nordmann, Alfred (eds.): Das bunte Gewand der Theorie: Vierzehn Begegnungen mit philosophierenden Forschern, Freiburg/ München: 235-262. Epple, Moritz (2009): Two improvisations on the easy in mathematics. In: Dombois, Florian/ Ofosu, Yeboaa/ Schmidt, Sarah (eds.): Genau - leicht - konsequent. Basel: Schwalbe: 43-54. 2008 Epple, Moritz (2008): Der Grosse Ploetz: Die Enzyklopädie der Weltgeschichte, 35th completely revised edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Responsible author for the thematic area "History of Science since 1789" (in cooperation with Birgit Bergmann, Bjoern Schirmeier and Florian Schmaltz). Epple, Moritz/ Hård, Mikael/ Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg/ Roelcke, Volker (2008): Editorial, in: NTM - Zeitschrift fürGeschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 16, 1-4. Epple, Moritz/ Bergmann, Birgit (eds.) (2008): Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking academic culture. Heidelberg: Springer. Epple, Moritz (2008): Mathematics and German-Jewish history. In: Stiftung Lesen (ed.): You can do more math. Ideas for the classroom. Mainz, 4-9. Epple, Moritz (2008): Mathematical sciences. In: Encyclopaedia of Modern Times, Volume 8. Stuttgart: Metzler. Epple, Moritz (2008): The Gap Between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century. In: Zittel, Claus et al. (eds.): Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries. Leiden: Brill, 457-494. 2007 Epple, Moritz (2007): An Unusual Career between Cultural and Mathematical Modernism: Felix Hausdorff, 1868-1942. In: Charpa, Ulrich/ Deichmann, Ute (eds.): Jews and Sciences in German Contexts: Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Tübingen: Mohr and Siebeck, 77-99.