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Ein bisher unbekanntes Zeitzeugnis : Otto Warburgs Tagebuchnotizen von Februar-April 1945

Nickelsen, Kärin

In: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 2008, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 103-115

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    Titre
    • Ein bisher unbekanntes Zeitzeugnis
      Otto Warburgs Tagebuchnotizen von Februar-April 1945
    Auteur
    • Nickelsen, Kärin. Abteilung Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Allemand
    Publié dans
    • NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 2008, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 103-115. SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:309894
    Summary
    Warburg's diary notes February-April 1945 Personal notes in the form of a diary, written by the German cell biologist Otto Warburg in the weeks before the collapse of Germany's Third Reich (Feb.-April 1945), were found at the end of one of his laboratory notebooks, which are preserved in the Archives of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. These notes are unique in form and content: there seem to be no other surviving diary notes of this type. Written from a very personal perspective, they provide a detailed account of how Warburg experienced local events in this decisive and turbulent period. Furthermore, they clearly demonstrate Warburg's embittered attitude towards some of his long-standing collaborators, whom he suspected of having denounced him to the Nazi authorities. In this paper, Warburg's notes are fully transcribed and integrated into the historical context