Anke te Heesen
Anke te Heesen (*1965) is a German historian of science and professor for the History of Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on the development and organization of knowledge in the 19th and 20th centuries. Te Heesen studied cultural pedagogy at the Universität-Hildesheim (1985-1991) and received her Ph.D. from the University of Oldenburg in 1995. She worked as a research assistant at the Research Center for the European Enlightenment, Potsdam (1996/1997), the Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (1998/1999), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (1999-2006). After acting  as founding director of the Museum of the Universität Tübingen (MUT) (2006-2008), she was appointed as Professor for Empirical Cultural Studies at Tübingen (2008-2011), and then assumed her current position as Professor for the History of Knowledge at the History Department of Humboldt-Universität in 2011. Anke te Heesen's study on the history of the research interview, in which she examines the Sources for History of Quantum Physics interview project headed by Thomas S. Kuhn will be published in German in 03/2022. Publications. Monographs Editorship (selection)