Agnes Bauer

Agnes Bauer graduated with a master’s degree in the history of science and technology from Technische Universität Berlin after having completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Presently, they are an associated PhD candidate at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam (ZZF) and work as a lecturer at Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces (HSU) in Hamburg. At the MPIWG, Agnes will be part of the Research Group “Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body,” researching the history of psychological vocational testing in Germany between the 1920s and the 1960s. Agnes is a member of the German society for the history of science, medicine, and technology GWMT and the society for the history of technology GTG, where they have given talks presenting their master’s and doctoral research. They acted as the PhD candidates’ representative at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam in 2021–22.

Publications

• “Bauer, Agnes: Hartmut Petzold. Eine Berliner Waage im Münchner Deutschen Museum. München: Deutsches Museum Verlag, 2019. 203 pp. Review in HoST – Journal of History of Sicence and Technology 15 (2021) 1, pp. 4-6."

• Bauer, Agnes: „Die Galton-Pfeife“, Preprint des Workshops „Material Culture in the History of Physics“, Deutsches Museum München; https://www.uni-flensburg.de/fileadmin/content/abteilungen/physik/bilder-und-dokumente-aktuell/6-forschung/material-culture/ [Zugriff: 11. Mai 2019]

• Bauer, Agnes: „,Herrliche, liebliche und fürtreffliche Nutzbarkeit.‘ Vermittlung von praktischem Wissen durch Franz Ritters Astrolabium-Traktat von 1613“, in: Engelschalt, J.; Maibaum, A.; Engels, F.; Odenwald, J. (Hrsg.): Schafft Wissen: Gemeinsames und geteiltes Wissen in Wissenschaft und Technik: Proceedings der 2. Tagung des Nachwuchsnetzwerks „INSIST“; 07.-08. Oktober 2016. München 2018, S. 22–42.

• Bauer, Agnes; Cubasch, Alwin: „Tagungsbericht Technikemotionen. 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte (GTG) vom 4. bis 6. Mai 2018“, in: Technikgeschichte 85 (2018) 3, S. 217–222.