Forced migration and scientific change : emigre German-speaking scientists and scholars after 1933

Author(s)

• Ash, Mitchell G.
• Söllner, Alfons

Bibliographic Information

Forced migration and scientific change : emigre German-speaking scientists and scholars after 1933

edited by Mitchell G. Ash and Alfons Söllner

（Publications of the German Historical Institute）

German Historical Institute , Cambridge University Press, 1996

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earlier work on the 'intellectual migration' on losses (for German science) and gains (for British and American science). Instead, the authors proceed from the assumption that the sciences are open, dynamic, and historically contingent systems, and explore the multiple, complex interactions of biographical, social, and cultural circumstances with changes - or lack of change - in the emigres' scientific thinking and research.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: forced migrations and scientific change after 1933 Mitchell G. Ash and Alfons Soellner
• Part I. Physical and Medical Sciences: 1. Identification of emigration-induced scientific change Klaus Fischer
• 2. Physics, life, and contingency: Born, Schroedinger, and Weyl in exile Skuli Sigurdsson
• 3. Emigration from country and discipline: the journey of a German physicist into American photosynthesis research Alan D. Beyerchen
• 4. The impact of German medical scientists on British medicine: a case study of Oxford, 1933-45 Paul Weindling
• Part II. Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Pedagogy: 5. Emigre psychologists after 1933: the cultural coding of scientific and professional practices Mitchell G. Ash
• 6. Psychoanalytic science: from Oedipus to culture Edith Kurzweil
• 7. The impact of emigration on German pedagogy Heinz-Elmar Tenorth and Klaus Horn
• Part III. Social Sciences: 8. Dismissal and emigration of German-speaking economists after 1933 Claus-Dieter Krohn
• 9. Emigration of social scientists' schools from Austria Christian Fleck
• 10. The Vienna Circle in the United States and empirical research methods in sociology Jennifer Platt and Paul K. Hoch
• 11. From public law to political science? The emigration of German scholars after 1933 and their influence on the transformation of a discipline Alfons Soellner
• Epilogue: the refugee scholar in America: the case of Paul Tillich Karen J. Greenberg.

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• NCID: BA27645317
• ISBN:
  • 0521497418
• LCCN: 95024894
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.,Cambridge, England
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 301 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E184.G3
  • DC20 : 306.4/2/08931073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Germans -- United States -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Germans -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Brain drain -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Brain drain -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18253010