Sven Dupré

Research Group Director

Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin

Residence: July 1, 2011 - September 30, 2016

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Sven Dupré, previously Director of the Centre of History of Science at Ghent University, is Professor of History of Knowledge at the Institute for Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin and Research Group Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He has held visiting positions at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (Institute for Advanced Study) in Brussels, the Institute for History and Foundations of Science of the University of Utrecht, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney.

 He has published on a wide range of topics in the history of early modern science, technology and art in Italy, the Spanish Netherlands, the German lands, Britain and France. Recent publications include Silent Messengers (LIT, 2011) and From Earth-Bound to Satellite (Brill, 2011). A book on translation, language and knowledge, co-edited with Harold Cook (Brown University), is forthcoming.

 Sven Dupré is currently working on a monograph on Renaissance cultures of optics; an exhibition on art and alchemy at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and an edited book on laboratories of art; and a project (with Christine Göttler, University of Bern) on the collection of the Portuguese merchant-banker Emmanuel Ximenes in early seventeenth-century Antwerp.

 He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Nuncius, Science in Context and Studium, a former member of the advisory board of Isis, and a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d’ Histoire des Sciences in Paris.