Anneliese Maier

Anneliese Maier (German: [ˈmaɪɐ]; November 17, 1905 in Tübingen, Germany – December, 1971 in Rome, Italy) was a German historian of science particularly known for her work researching natural philosophy in the middle ages.

Biography

Anneliese Maier was the daughter of the philosopher Heinrich Maier (1876–1933). She studied

In 1951 Maier became a professor at the University of Cologne. She became a member of the Academies of Sciences in Mainz(1949), Göttingen (1962) and Munich (1966). In 1966 she received the George Sarton Medal for her profound studies on the history of natural philosophy in the Middle Ages.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has named a research grant after her, the Anneliese Maier Research Award, which is a "collaboration award to promote the internationalisation of the humanities and social sciences in Germany."^[3]

Selected works

• 1982: On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Maier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy, Steven D. Sargent, editor and translator, University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 1930: Kants Qualitätskategorien
• 1938: Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes im 17. Jahrhundert
• Studien zur Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik, 5 parts, 1949–1958.
  • 1949:Die Vorläufer Galileis im 14. Jahrhundert
  • 1951: Zwei Grundprobleme der scholastischen Naturphilosophie
  • 1952: An der Grenze von Scholastik und Naturwissenschaft
  • 1955: Metaphysische Hintergründe der spätscholastischen Naturphilosophie
  • 1958: Zwischen Philosophie und Mechanik. Studien zur Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik
• 1964–1977: Ausgehendes Mittelalter: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geistesgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts, 3 volumes.

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