Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar Kleeberg

• since 2021 - Editor-in-Chief of NTM - Journal for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (since 2/2018 co-editor)
• 2016 - 2020 - Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt
• since 10/2016 - Professor of History of Science at the University of Erfurt
• 2015-2016 - Visiting professor for General History of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the University of Base, Switzerlandl
• 2016 - Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Modern and Contemporary History
• Since 2014 - Managing Editor of the series Studies in the History of Knowledge (Historische Wissensforschung – HWF) and Studies in the History of Knowledge – Essay  (HWFE) at Mohr-Siebeck (Tübingen), since 2022 Wallstein (Göttingen)
• 2007-2015 - Assistant professor (without TT) for the History of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz
• 2007 - Research coordinator at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the Justus Liebig University Giessen
• 2005 - Visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science
• 2003-2006 - Research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin
• 1999-2002 - Research scholar in the SFB 511 "Literature and Anthropology", doctorate in 2002 with the thesis "Theophysis. Ernst Haeckel's Philosophy of the Whole of Nature"
• Studied History and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz

• Lebensstandard: Geschichte eines Konzepts im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2025 (in print).
• With Cain, Friedrich (ed.). A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar Poland. Tübingen, Mohr-Siebeck, 2024.
• With Cain, Friedrich, Dietlind Hüchtker, et int, Jan Surman, (ed. of the special edition). Scientific Authority and the Politics of Science and History in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte/History of Science and Humanities 44(4), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202100035
• 'Factual Narrative in Economics'. In Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.). Narrative Factuality: A Hand book. Berlin, de Gruyter, 2020, 379-391. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110486278-025
• 'Post Post-Truth: Epistemologies of Disintegration and the Praxeology of Truth'. Stan Rzeczy (State of Affairs) 17(2), 2019 , 25-52. https://doi.org/10.51196/srz.17.2
• With Cain, Friedrich, Dietlind Hüchtker, and Jan Surman. 'A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe'. Stan Rzeczy (State of Affairs) 17(2), 2019, 9-21. https://doi.org/10.51196/srz.17.1
• 'Bad Habits and the Origins of Sociology'. In Nicole Falkenhayner, Andreas Langenohl, et int, Kacper Szulecki (eds.). Rethinking Order: Idioms of Stability and De-Stabilisation. Bielefeld, transcript, 2015, 47-62. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839424728-003
• (ed. of the special edition). Ernst Mach and the thought experiment around 1900. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 38(1), 2015.
• With Sylwia Werner (ed. of the special issue). Gestalt, rite, collective. Ludwik Fleck in the context of ethnology, Gestalt psychology and sociology of his time. NTM - Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 22(1-2), 2014.
• With Robert Suter. 'Doing Truth: Building Blocks of a Praxeology of Truth'. Journal of Philosophy of Culture 8(2), 2014, 211-226. doi. org/10.28937/1000106675
• 'Introduction'. In Bernhard Kleeberg (ed.). Bad Habits: An Anthology 1750-1900. Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2012, 9-63.
• 'Travelling to the Continent of Poverty. Ethnography of the Social in the 19th Century' In Michael Neumann and Kerstin Stüssel (eds.). magic of stories. Weltverkehr, Literatur und Anthropologie in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, Konstanz, Konstanz University Press, 2011, 29-52.
• 'Significance and Abstraction: Scientific Uses of Counterfactual Thought Experiments in Early 20th Century'. In Dorothee Birke, Michael Butter and Tilmann Köppe (eds.). Counterfactual Thinking / Counterfactual Writing. Berlin, de Gruyter, 2011, 112-129.
• With Andreas Langenohl. 'Culturalisation, deculturalisation'. Journal of Philosophy of Culture 5(1), 2011, 281-302. doi. org/10.28937/1000106587
• 'The Will to Meaning. Protestant Reactions to Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Germany'. In Scott Mandelbrote and Jitse van der Meer (eds.). Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions, vol. 2/1: 1700-present. Leiden, Brill, 2008, 257-291. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004171923.i-618.59
• 'God-Nature Progressing. Natural Theology in German Monism'. Science in Context 20(3), 2007, 537-569. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026988970700141X
• 'Ideal Geometrical Types and Epistemologies of Morphology'. In Erna Fiorentini (ed.). Observing Nature - Representing Experience. The Osmotic Dynamics of Romanticism. 1800-1850. Berlin, Reimer, 2007, 187-203.
• Theophysis: Ernst Haeckel's monistic Philosophy of the Whole of Nature. Cologne and Weimar, Böhlau, 2005.

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