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Gabriel Finkelstein

0000-0003-2447-0448

Associate Professor (Historical studies not elsewhere classified)

University of Colorado Denver

MIT Press has published my biography of Emil du Bois-Reymond, the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. I am currently working on a study of the challenges that “scientific historians” presented to discipline of history during the 1860s and 1870s.

Publications

  • Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Cambridge; London: MIT Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780262019507
  • "Matteucci and du Bois-Reymond: A Bitter Rivalry." Archives Italiennes de Biologie: A Journal of Neuroscience 149, no. 4 (December 2011): 29-37.
  • "Emil du Bois-Reymond vs Ludimar Hermann." Comptes Rendus Biologies 329, nos. 5-6 (May-June 2006): 340-347.
  • "M. du Bois-Reymond goes to Paris." British Journal for the History of Science 36, no. 3 (September 2003): 261-300.
  • “Romanticism, Race, and Recapitulation.” Science 294, no. 5549 (7 December 2001): 2101-2102. DOI: 10.1126/science.1066826
  • “‘Conquerors of the Künlün’?: The Schlagintweit Mission to High Asia, 1854-57.” History of Science 38, pt. 2, no. 120 (June 2000): 179-218.
  • “Autorité rhétorique: Claude Bernard et Émile du Bois-Reymond.” In Les élèves de Claude Bernard: Les nouvelles disciplines bernardiennes au tournant du XXe siècle, ed. Jean-Gäel Barbara and Pierre Corvol, 173-192. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2012.
  • “Marriage and Science in Nineteenth Century Berlin: Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Correspondence with Jeannette Claude.” In La Mediazione matrimoniale: Il Terzo (in)comodo in Europa fra Otto e Novecento, ed. Bruno P. F. Wanrooij, 195-219. Biblioteca di Storia sociale, 32. Fiesole: Georgetown University; Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2004.
  • “Vom Vorzug der Rückständigkeit.” In Darwinismus und/als Ideologie, ed. Uwe Hoßfeld and Rainer Brömer, 109-115. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, vol. 6. Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2001.
  • “Kultur-Evolution bei Emil du Bois-Reymond.” In Evolutionsbiologie von Darwin bis heute, ed. Rainer Brömer, Uwe Hoßfeld, and Nicolaas A. Rupke, 131-135. Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, vol. 4. Berlin: VWB—Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000.
  • Emil du Bois-Reymond on “The Seat of the Soul.” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives, 16 January 2014.
  • “Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Consciousness.” In Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience, ed. Chris Smith and Harry Whitaker, 163-184. Berlin: Dordrecht; Heidelberg; New York; London, 2014.
  • “The Ascent of Man? Emil du Bois-Reymond’s Reflections on Scientific Progress.” Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science 24, no. 3 (September 2000): 129-132.
  • "Why Darwin was English." Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science 24, no. 2 (June 2000): 76-78.
  • "Headless in Kashgar." Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science 23, no. 1 (March 1999): 5-9.
  • Review of Zwischen den Sternen: Lichtbildarchive: Was Einstein und Uexküll, Benjamin und das Kino der Astronomie des 19. Jahrhunderts verdanken DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/599671
  • Review of Gustav Magnus und sein Haus: Im Auftrag der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft. Technology and Culture 39, no. 3 (July 1998): 568-569.
  • "New Perspectives on Alexander von Humboldt." NTM: International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine 6 (1998): 60.
  • Review of Russell Stannard, The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable? Oxford; New York: Oxford University, 2010.
  • Review of Daniel P. Todes, Pavlov’s Physiology Factory: Experiment, Interpretation, Laboratory Enterprise, Baltimore: John Hopkins, 2002
  • Review of Michel Meulders, Helmholtz, des lumières aux neurosciences, Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 2001. DOI: DOI:10.1076/jhin.11.3.311.10393

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