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Jürgen Hamel (born 6 June 1951) is a German
astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...
historian. His research areas are the history of astronomy in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, the period around 1800, the history of astrophysics, astronomy and cultural history, and the history of astronomical instruments.„Vorgestellt.“
24 January 2002. Auf Leibniz-Sozietät, retrieved 21 March 2021.


Life and career

Hamel was born in
Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish language, Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German language, German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklen ...
. After an apprenticeship as a , he studied philosophy, history and education at the
University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...
and then worked as a university lecturer at the
University of Rostock The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...
, where he obtained his doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the early history of astrophysics. From 1978 to 1991, Hamel worked at the Archenhold Observatory as a student of Dieter B. Herrmann. In addition to his scientific work, he was involved in popularising astronomy, gave numerous lectures within the framework of the Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse and was active on the editorial board of the journal ''Astronomy and Astronautics'' published by the
Cultural Association of the GDR The Cultural Association of the GDR (, KB) was a federation of local clubs in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It formed part of the Socialist Unity Party-led National Front, and sent representatives to the Volkskammer. The association had ...
. From 1990 onwards, Hamel was a contributor to the publication of the Collected Works of
Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...
and
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best know ...
. In 1996, as part of a scholarship from the , he worked on ''The First German Translation of the Major Astronomical Work of Nicolaus Copernicus 1586''. From 1998 to 2000, he worked at the in Kassel. For many years he lectured on the "History of Astronomy" and the "Introduction to Astronomy" at the University of Koblenz and Landau. On 17 May 2001, Hamel was elected member of the . He is co-founder and co-editor of the publication series ''Acta Historica Astronomiae'',Wolfgang R. Dick, Jürgen Hamel (ed.)
''Acta Historica Astronomiae,''
. At Universitätsverlag Leipzig, retrieved 21 March 2021.
editor-in-chief of the journal ' as well as, since 2019, of the scientific yearbook for the history of Pomerania '' Baltic Studies''.


Publications (selection)

; Introductions to the history of astronomy * ''Astronomie in alter Zeit.'' (''Archenhold-Sternwarte Berlin-Treptow. Vorträge und Schriften.'' 60). 2nd ed. edition. Berlin-Treptow 1981. * Bearbeitung der deutschsprachigen Ausgabe von Angel Bonov: ''Sternbilder, Sternsagen: Mythen und Legenden um Sternbilder.'' Übers. aus dem Bulgarischen von Leo Korniljew. 2nd edition. Leipzig/ Jena/ Berlin 1986, . * ''Astronomiegeschichte in Quellentexten. Von Hesiod bis Hubble.'' Springer Spektrum, 1996, . * ''Geschichte der Astronomie. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.''
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, Basel/ Boston/ Berlin 1998, . 2nd edition. Kosmos-Franckh, Stuttgart 2002, . * ''
History of astronomy The history of astronomy focuses on the contributions civilizations have made to further their understanding of the universe beyond earth's atmosphere. Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences, achieving a high level of success in the sec ...
. In Texten von Hesiod bis Hubble.'' 2. erw. Auflage. Magnus Verlag, Essen 2004, . * ''Meilensteine der Astronomie. Von Aristoteles bis Hawking.'' Kosmos, 2006, . ; Biographies and special topics * ''Zur Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Kantschen Kosmogonie.'' (Communications of the Archenhold-Sternwarte. 130). Berlin-Treptow 1979. * ''
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (8 November 1834, Berlin25 April 1882, Leipzig) was a German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He was also an early Parapsychology, psychical investigator. Biography From 1872 he held the chair of astro ...
. Versuch einer Analyse seiner philosophischen Position'' (Communications of the Archenhold-Sternwarte. 129). Berlin-Treptow 1977. * ''
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method ...
'' (''.'' 67). BSB Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1984 * '' Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel'' (''Biographien hervorragender Naturwissenschaftler, Techniker und Mediziner.'' 89). BSB Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1988, . * ''
Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...
. Leben, Werk und Wirkung''. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg/ Berlin/ Oxford 1994, . * ''Die astronomischen Forschungen in Kassel unter William IV. Mit einer wissenschaftlichen Teiledition der Übersetzung des Hauptwerkes von Copernicus 1586.'' (''Acta Historica Astronomiae.'' 2). 2nd corrected edition.
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, Thun/ Frankfurt, 1998, . * Jürgen Hamel,
Eberhard Knobloch Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943) is a German historian of science and historian of mathematics, mathematics. Career Knobloch was born in Görlitz. From 1962 to 1967 he studied classics and mathematics at FU Berlin and Technische Uni ...
, Herbert Pieper (ed.): ''
Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, natural history, naturalist, List of explorers, explorer, and proponent of Romanticism, Romantic philosophy and Romanticism ...
in Berlin. Sein Einfluß auf die Entwicklung der Wissenschaften''. (''Algorismus. Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften.'' 41). Augsburg 2003. * Jürgen Hamel (ed.): ''Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium zum 75. Geburtstag von Hans-Jürgen Treder''. (Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät), trafo, Berlin 2003 * '' Herrmann, Dieter B.'' In ''Wer war wer in der DDR?'' 5th edition. Vol. 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, . * '' Wattenberg, Diedrich.'' In ''Wer war wer in der DDR?'' 5th edition. Vol. 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, . * ''Ein Beitrag zur Familiengeschichte von Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel. Nach den Quellen bearbeitete Stammreihe des Astronomen''. In Mitteilungen der Gauss Gesellschaft 26 (1989), (Mitteilungen der Archenhold-Sternwarte; 164). * ''Meisterwerk der Kartografie. Die Lubinsche Pommernkarte von 1618''. (Schriften des STRALSUND MUSEUM, Bd. 3), Stralsund 2018, . ; Classics Studies * as collaborator: ''Bibliographia Kepleriana. Verzeichnis der gedruckten Schriften von und über
Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best know ...
. Ergänzungsband zur zweiten Auflage.'' Munich 1998, . * with Klaus Harro Tiemann und Martin Pape (ed.): ''Die Kosmosvorträge 1827/28 in der Berliner Singakademie.'' Insel Verlag, Frankfurt/ Leipzig 2004 * with Miguel A. Granada and : ''
Christoph Rothmann Christoph Rothmann (between 1550 and 1560 in Bernburg, Saxony-Anhalt – probably after 1600 in Bernburg) was a German mathematician and one of the few well-known astronomers of his time. His research contributed substantially to the fact that Ka ...
's Handbuch der Astronomie von 1589''. Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2003, . * with Thomas Posch (ed.): ''
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ''De revolutionibus orbium coelestium'' (English translation: ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'') is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book ...
''. (''
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wi ...
.'' 300). Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt, 2008, . * as editor: ''Über den Bau des Himmels. Abhandlungen über die Struktur des Universums und die Entwicklung der Himmelskörper 1784–1814 von Wilhelm Herschel''. (
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wi ...
. 288). Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt, 2001, . * ''Nachwort.''
Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works ...
: '' Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels.'' (''
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wi ...
.'' 12). Frankfurt, 2005, . * Menso Folkerts (ed.): '' Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe.'' Vol. III/3: ''De Revolutionibus. Die erste deutsche Übersetzung in der Grazer Handschrift. Kritische Edition.'' bearb. von Andreas Kühne, Jürgen Hamel.
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, Berlin 2007, . * ''Die Himmelsvermessung des
Johann Bayer Johann Bayer (; 1572 – 7 March 1625) was a German lawyer and uranographer (celestial cartographer). He was born in Rain in 1572. In 1592, aged 20, he began his study of philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt, after which he ...
.'' (Begleitbuch zur ''
Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer. It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang (''Christophorus Mangus'') under the full title (from Latin: ''Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new method an ...
''). Gerchsheim 2010, . * ''Studien zur "Sphaera" des
Johannes de Sacrobosco Johannes de Sacrobosco, also written Ioannes de Sacro Bosco, later called John of Holywood or John of Holybush ( 1195 – 1256), was a scholar, Catholic monk, and astronomer who taught at the University of Paris. He wrote a short introductio ...
.'' (Acta Historica Astronomiae. 51). Leipzig 2014 *
Peter Apian Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German Humanism, humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on "cosmography", the fie ...
: ''Instrument Buch''. Reprint der Originalausgabe Ingolstadt 1533. Edited with a foreword by Jürgen Hamel. Reprintverlag, Leipzig 1990. ; Criticisms of astrology * ''
Astrology Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...
– Tochter der Astronomie?'' (''.'' 85). 2nd edition. Urania Verlag, Leipzig/ Jena/ Berlin 1987, . * ''Astrologie – Tochter der Astronomie?'' (''Spektrum des Wissens.'' 3426). Moewig, Rastatt 1989, . * ''Begriffe der Astrologie. Von Abendstern bis Zwillingsproblem.'' Harri Deutsch Verlag, Frankfurt, 2010, .


References


Further reading

* Wolfgang R. Dick, Dietmar Fürst (ed.): ''Lebensläufe und Himmelsbahnen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Jürgen Hamel.'' (''Acta Historica Astronomiae.'' Vol. 52). Leipzig 2014, .


External links


Dr. Jürgen Hamel
@art-und-friedrich.de
''Bibliographie der astronomischen Literatur bis 1700.''
bearb. von Jürgen Hamel, Förderverein der Archenhold-Sternwarte und des Zeiss-Großplanetariums Berlin

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