Anneliese Maier
Anneliese Maier 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. She studied natural sciences and philosophy from 1923 to 1926 at the universities in Berlin and Zurich. In 1930 she finished her dissertation on Immanuel Kant. She then worked for the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1936 she moved to Rome. There she worked until 1945 at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana on the philosophy of nature.
In 1951 Maier became an honorary professor. She became a member of the Academies of Sciences in, Göttingen and Munich. 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."Writings (selection)
English
German
- Kants Qualitätskategorien, 1930.
- Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes im 17. Jahrhundert, 1938.
- Studien zur Naturphilosophie der Spätscholastik, 5 parts, 1949–1958.
- Ausgehendes Mittelalter: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Geistesgeschichte des 14. Jahrhunderts, 3 volumes, 1964–1977.
