ao. Univ.-Prof. 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
    • Oct 2016 - 2020: Head of the Working Group History of Science at the Department
    • Sept. 2016-2020 General Secretary of the INHIGEO
    • Oct. 2020 Retirement, continued teaching
    • 2020-2028 Vice-President of Europe (INHIGEO)
    • 2022 Member of the Board of the Lieben-Gesellschaft
    • 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 “200th 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
    • 2010: Wulfen-Price by Carinthian Natural History Society
    • 2000 korrespondierendes Mitglied des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Kärnten
    • 2022 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award 2022 der Geological Society of America
    • 2022 Ehrenmedaille des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten
    • 2022 Korrespondentin der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (nun GeoSphere Austria)
  • 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)

Research

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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
  • 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: 7th 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 18–19th centuries, at: 7th 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’, 9th 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’. 4th 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, 3rd 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.
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Professional Service

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  • Fellowship and Membership
    • 1997: Board member of the Austrian Society for History of Science
    • 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)
    • Since 2007 Head and Member of the Group “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit” of the Faculty
    • 2009-2012: Councellor and Member of the Nominating Committee of the Earth Science Society (USA)
    • Oct 2016 - 2020: Head of the Working Group History of Science at the Department
    • Sept. 2016-2020 General Secretary of the INHIGEO
    • 2020-2028 Vice-President of Europe (INHIGEO)
    • 2022 Member of the Board of the Lieben-Gesellschaft
    • 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)
  • 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.

Publications

List of Publications

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Expeditions and Fieldwork in Earth Sciences. / Klemun, Marianne.

Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences. ed. / Elena Aronova; David Sepkoski; Marco Tamborini. 1. ed. Springer Cham, 2024. p. 1-24 (Historiographies of Science, Vol. 4).

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Äußerst komplexe Verhältnisse : Vom Wissen, Gärten und Sammlungen. / Klemun, Marianne.

RENAISSANCE einst, jetzt & hier: Katalog zur Ausstellung auf der Schallaburg. Schallaburg : Schallaburg Kulturbetriebsges.m.b.H, 2024. p. 214-218.

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Der Botanische Garten zu Klagenfurt – Das Alpinum als Tor zur Welt? Ein Wissensraum zwischen „Paradies“ und Mangelwirtschaft in den 1920er Jahren. / Klemun, Marianne.

Ein Land im Wandel: Kärnten in den 1920er Jahren. Festschrift für Claudia Fräss-Ehrfeld. ed. / Heidi Rogy; Peter Wiesflecker. Klagenfurt : Verlag des Geschichtsvereines für Kärnten, 2024. p. 115-122.

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Der mehr als bemerkenswerte Franz Joseph Graf Enzenberg (1747–1821). / Klemun, Marianne.

In: Bulletin Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Vol. 2024, No. 1, 2024, p. 87–96.

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Vom Sammeln musealer Naturobjekte zum gesellschaftlichen Leben : Reflexionen zum Jubiläum des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Kärnten (1848-2023). / Klemun, Marianne.

In: Ornithologischer Rundbrief, Vol. 37, 2024, p. 28-32.

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Activities

Activities in u:cris

Speik: Verschränkte Wege einer Wildpflanze zwischen Wissenschaft und Ökonomie

Marianne Klemun
19. Österreichische Botanik-Tagung
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
23.9.2021 - 25.9.2021

Pflanzen und Politik: Rückwärtsgewandte oder doch auch zukunftsweisende Konzepte?,

Marianne Klemun
Vom Alten abgrenzen und das Neue vorwegnehmen? Umordnen von Staat und Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert in zeitlicher Perspektive.
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
22.9.2021 - 24.9.2021

Botanische Gärten und Stadtbotanik

Marianne Klemun
Grün in der Stadt – Vom Hortus conclusus zum Urban gardening
Other, Talk or oral contribution
15.9.2021 - 17.9.2021

Organising of the session with three panels (12 Speakers)

Marianne Klemun
26th ICHST, International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
25.7.2021 - 31.7.2021

„Special Commission“ Meteorites: Fireballs and Sort-term sensation.

Marianne Klemun
Meeting of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences
Conference, Talk or oral contribution
18.7.2021 - 24.7.2021