Professor Dr Sonja Brentjes
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Position description
Guest researcher at the IZWT
Stay at the IZWT
June - December 2024: Visiting scientist
October 2025 - March 2026: Guest lecturer (course "Sciences in Islamic Societies, 8th-17th Century")
Biography
Research:
During my stay at the Interdisciplinary Center for the History of Science and Technology, I will compare Book 1 of Euclid's Elements in several text versions of Arabic translations of the basic Greek work. The aim of the investigation is to determine whether there is indeed a remnant of an independent translation by Ishaq ibn Hunayn in the editorial office of Thabit ibn Qurra in this book, or whether the attribution to these two scholars from around the second half of the ninth century is a historical error and Book 1 also goes back to the work of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar from the late eighth and first third of the new century.
Professor Dr Manuela Fernández Pinto
Position description
Visiting Professor with a Mercator Fellowship in the DFG project"Exploring Dimensions of Epistemic Intimidation"
Stay at the IZWT
6+9/2022
1-6/2023
6/2024
Liubomyr Fedoriv
Position description
Scholarship holder (virtual, from Ukraine) with research project"The Humanities in the World after the Corona Pandemic: New Perspectives for Research and Teaching"
and research assistant in the DFG project"Dimensions of epistemic intimidation"
Stay at the IZWT
7-12/2022
and 5/2023-1/2025
Maryna Mykytenko
Position description
Scholarship holder (virtual, from Ukraine) with research project"Non-discrimination principle in the educational area of XX - XXI centuries"
Stay at the IZWT
5-10/2022
Mangakane Karabo Makola
Position description
Scholarship holder with the project "The History of Social Science Disaster Research in South Africa, 1980-2010"
and research assistant in the DFG project"Science in the Eye of the Storm"
Stay at the IZWT
6-11/2021
and 12/2021-11/2024
Brigitte Stenhouse
Position description
Scholarship holder with the project "The Female Form in Eighteenth-Century Mathematical Iconography"
Stay at the IZWT
6-8/2021
Rebecca Partikel
Position description
Scholarship holder with the project "For the book, in front of the book and beyond the book: The images in the astronomical books of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687)"
Stay at the IZWT
5-6/2021
Kaleigh Hunter
Position description
Scholarship holder with the project "Gardens in Ink: engraved title-pages of European botanical treatises from 1450-1700."
Stay at the IZWT
4-8/2020
