Thomas Manns Polemik mit Theodor Lessing1

Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann’s Californian Exile

“It is a very strange relationship.”1 Writing to his mother in January 1947, when the collaboration with Thomas Mann on Doktor Faustus was reaching its end, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno would still fi nd their connection impossible to describe. From today’s greater distance we in turn cannot presume to say defi nitively what it is that went on there. Certainly, a novel was written; certainly, a d...

Die Beliebigkeit betrieblicher Umweltinformationssysteme - eine Polemik

Die nachfolgende Polemik ist von der Sorge um den gegenwärtigen Stand der Betrieblichen Umweltinformatik als Wissenschaft und dem Stellenwert der Betrieblichen Umweltinformationssysteme im betrieblichen Kontext getrieben. Sie resultiert aus einer langjährigen Beschäftigung des Autors mit diesen Gegenständen in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Er war einer der wenigen Protagonisten, die in der 2. Hälfte...

Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 – 1917

Theodor Förster: a giant of modern photochemistry.

The year 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Theodor Fçrster, one of the giants of modern photochemistry. This issue is a celebration of Fçrster’s scientific achievements, and equally importantly, the science that has been enabled by his discoveries. His contributions are key to the understanding of important problems in excited-state photochemical reactions and the understanding of organi...

Emil Theodor Kocher--valve surgery for epilepsy.

Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) was a pioneering and versatile Swiss surgeon who played a decisive role in the surgical evolution on the threshold to the 20th century. Apart from conducting intense research and fostering the development of the surgical treatment of thyroid gland diseases (honored with a Nobel Prize in 1909), he remained a generalist and was active in orthopedic, genitourinary, ...