ao. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Mag. Dr. Marianne Klemun

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• Curriculum Vitae

  Name: Marianne KLEMUN

  Date of birth: 9 April 1955

  Place of birth: Ruden, Austria

  Nationality: Austrian

  Marital status: Married

  Currently position: Professor (Ao.-Prof.) at the Department of History, Univ. Vienna

  Fields of Interest: History of Science, Natural History in a cultural context

   

  School education

  • 1963 – 1966 Primary School Ruden, Austria
  • 1967 – 1974 Grammar School in Klagenfurt, Austria

   

  University education

  • 1974: University of Vienna. Fields of study: History, German Language and Literature, History of Art, and biological and geological subjects.
  • 1982: MA in German Language and Literature, History and Teaching
  • 1992: PhD in History at the University of Vienna
  • 2002: Habilitation and Professor at the Dept. of Modern History of the Univ. of Vienna

   

  Professional Experience

  • 1976-1982: Teacher in Adult Education: “German for Foreigners” at state-funded evening schools
  • 1977-1982: Numerous training courses and wide experience in the field of “German for Foreigners” in Germany (Nuremberg, etc.)
  • 1982:   Assistant teacher at a grammar school in Vienna
  • 1982-1991 Postdoc at the Department of Modern History, Univ. of Vienna
  • 1986-1992: Research in Klagenfurt (Austria), Graz (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Trieste (Italy), Munich, Berlin, London and Sibiu (Romania)
  • 1992-2002: Ass. Prof. at the Department of Mod. History, Univ. of Vienna
  • 1997: Board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science
  • 1997-2004: Consultant for equal rights for women within the Faculty of Cult. Studies
  • Since 2004: Elected Membership in the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences INHIGEO
  • Since 2005-2014: Elected Member of the “Commission for Hist. of Sciences” at the Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
  • 2006-2012 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Cultural –History, University in Vienna
  • Since 2007 Head and Member of the Group “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit” of the Faculty
  • 2007: Visiting Professor at Jena (Germany) and teaching in History of Geology
  • 2009-2012: Councellor and Member of the Nominating Committee of the Earth Science Society (USA)
  • 2011-2012: Vice Director of the Department of History, University of Vienna
  • 2016-2020: Secretary General of INHIGEO (International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences) http://www.inhigeo.com/
  • 2016-2020: Head of the Working Group on the History of Science at the Department of History
  • Oct. 2020: Retirement, continuing to teach courses
  • 2020-2028: Vice-President of Europe (INHIGEO)
  • 2022: Member of the Board of the Lieben Society
  • 2020-2022: Elected President of HESS (History of Earth Science Society)
  • 2022-2024: President of HESS (United States)
  • 2024-2026: Past-President of HESS (United States)

   

  Curated Museum Exhibitions

  • 1998: Concept and organisation of the exhibition “Workshop Nature in Carinthia” in the County Museum for Carinthia
  • 1999: Concept of the exhibition “Franz Unger’” at the Institute of Ecology and Vegetation Ecology (Faculty of Science and Math.) Vienna
  • 2000: Scientific conception of the exhibition “200^th Anniversary of the First Ascent of the Grossglockner in Carinthia” , in Carinthia
  • 2012-2013: Co-curator of the Exhibition "Gelehrte Objekte" at the Austrian Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

   

  INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT (Selection)

  • Botanical Garden at Klagenfurt (Carinthia)
  • Centro interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia in Lisbon
• Awards

  • 2022 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award
  • 2022 from the Geological Society of America
  • 2022 Medal of Honor from the Historical Society for Carinthia
  • 2022 Correspondent for the Federal Geological Survey (now GeoSphere Austria)
  • 2011 Wulfen Prize of the Carinthian Natural History Society
  • 2000 Corresponding Member of the Natural Science Association for Carinthia
  • 2000 Consultant to the Botanical Garden in Klagenfurt
• Social Media

  Radio Interview: Gregor Mendel (2016) etc.

  Concept of “uni-fiction” Stories (Science communication) about the History of the University of Vienna on the homepage of the University (since 12 March 2014)

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• Research Interests

  • History of science
  • history of natural sciences in a cultural context (botany, travelling, botanical gardens, expeditions)
  • history of earth science
• Projects

  • Member of the Group „Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Metropole“ (History of science and metropolis) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Commission History and Philosophy of Sciences)
  • Book (2018/9): Edition and interpretation: the diaries of Franz Hauer
  • Book (2020): edition and interpretation of Hauer's diaries
  • Ongoing project on “Echter Speik” 2023-2024 (funded by the Academy of Sciences): book to be published in 2025
• Conference Organisation

  Selection

  • Together with Ana Carneiro: Organisation of the Session: „Textbooks and Handbooks as an Instrument of Power” (Symposium Nr. 41, 10 papers), at: 7^th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: “Science and Power, Science as Power”, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 22–24 September 2016.
  • Commentator of 9 papers: “Skulls and roses: natural History collection and their meaning in 18–19^th centuries, at: 7^th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: “Science and Power, Science as Power”, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 22–24 September 2016.
  • Organisation of the Conference: Eduard Suess (1831–1914). Politik – Wissenschaft – Verantwortung, University of Vienna, 25 April, 2014.
  • Organiser of the session ‘Addressing the Dynamics of Museums’, at ‘Science and Technology in the European Periphery’, 9^th STEP Meeting, Centro interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, 1 - 3 September 2014, Lisbon).
  • Organiser of the session (with Marita Hübner) ‘Antiquarism – crossing regions, oceans, and field of knowledge’, at Scientiae 2014, Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World’; 23 - 25 April 2014, Juridicum, Vienna.
  • Organiser of the symposium ‘Scientific Expeditions: Local Practices and Cosmopolitan Discourses’, with Ulrike Spring (Sogndal, Norwegen), at: 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science: Scientific Cosmopolitanism and Local Cultures: Religions, Ideologies, Societies, at:, 1 - 3 November, 2013, 12 Speakers, Athens.
  • Organiser of the session (with Elmar Schübl): ‘Historicized Nature – ‘Naturalized’ History’, at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies, 25 – 29 July 2011, in Graz.
  • Organiser of the session ‘”Moved” Natural Objects – Spaces in Between’. 4^th International Conference for the History of Science, 18 - 20 November 2010, Barcelona.
  • Organiser of the Symposium ‘Unity in Diversity’. Franz Ungers Natural Research in International Context. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009.
  • Organiser of the panel ‘“Bewegte” Naturobjekte – Zwischenräume’, at: Kulturgeschichtetag in Linz, 12 – 15 September 2009.
  • Organiser of the symposium (with Ana Carneiro): ‘Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences’. Introduction to this symposium with 12 participants; at: XXIII International Congress of Science and Technology (ICHST 2009). ‘Ideas and Instruments in Social Context’, 27 July – 2 August 2009, Budapest.
  •  Introduction in the Topic (Session Organiser of) “Geological State Surveys: geological Maps as acts of synthesis and as evidences of differing styles of thinking”: ESHS, 3^rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna, September 10–12, 2008.
  • Session organizer of (together with Nicolas Robin): “Botany between Knowledge and Science: Images, Interspaces, Experiences and Gender” – Paper: “Systematic botany in the romantic Vienna and ‘Voyages into the flower fields of life’”, at: ISHPSSB (International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology) Meeting in Exeter (Centre for Genomics in Society) University of Exeter, July 25–29, 2007.
• Links

  • https://ifg.univie.ac.at/forschung/laufende-drittmittelprojekte/einzelansicht-lauf-dmp/news/valeriana-celtica-ssp-norica-sustainable-and-equitable-use-of-an-endemic-plant-in-the-salzburger/
  • https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/Awards/2022/rabbitt.aspx
  • https://www.geologie.ac.at/news/news-artikel/dank-und-anerkennung
  • www.inhigeo.com
  • www.iugs.org

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• Editorship

  • Marianne Klemun / Ulrike Spring (Eds.): Scientific Expeditions as Experiments (London, New York, Melbourne: Palgrave & Macmillan 2016).
  • Einheit und Vielfalt. Franz Ungers (1800–1870) Konzepte der Naturforschung im internationalen Kontext (Vienna University Press, Göttingen 2016).
  • Marianne Klemun, Hubert Szemethy, Fritz Blakolmer und Martina Fuchs (Hg.): 1365 – 2015 – 2065. Etwas andere Geschichten der Universität Wien (Wien 2015). Together with Hubert Szemethy, Fritz Blakolmer und Martina Fuchs, translated from German by Bryan Jenner (Hg.): 1365 – 2015 – 2065. “Once there was a Student“: Other Stories of the University of Vienna (Vienna 2015).
  • Marianne Klemun, Hubert Szemethy, Martina Fuchs, Fritz Blakolmer und Matthias Beitl (Hg.): Gelehrte Objekte – Wege zum Wissen. Aus den Sammlungen der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät  (= Kataloge des Österreichischen Museums für Volkskunde 2013, 98).
  • (As Guest Editor): Moved Natural Objects. Spaces in Between (= Host Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 5, Spring, 2012) online-journal:  http://johost.eu/
  • Marianne Klemun / Thomas Hofmann (Hg.): Die k. k. Geologische Reichsanstalt in den ersten Jahrzehnten ihres Wirkens. Neue Zugänge und Forschungsfragen (= Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 95, Wien 2012).
  • Marianne Klemun / Ana Carneiro (Eds.): Seeing and Measuring, Constructing and Judging: Instruments in the History of the Earth Sciences (= Centaurus, An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects, Vol. 53, Issue 2, 2011).
  • Wissenschaft und Kolonialismus (Hg): (= Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 9/2, 2009).
  • Marianne Klemun / Veronika Hofer (Hg.): Bildfunktionen in den Wissenschaften (= Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 7/1, 2007).
  • Der Hochobir. Aus Natur und Geschichte, Marianne Klemun Hg. (Schriftleitung gem. mit B. Golob et.al, Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Kärnten)  (Klagenfurt 1999).

   

  CO-EDITOR OF JOURNALS

  • Wiener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, Wien 1983 – 1997.
  • Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, 1. Jg., 2001 – 10. Jg. 2010.
• Fellowship and Membership

  • Member of the Board of the Austrian Society of History of Science
  • Since 2016:
    Member of the Board of the INHIGEO
    Secretary General of the INHIGEO