English summary: Franz Unger, palaeo-botanist, biologist, cell-researcher, ecologist, geologist, evolutionist and cultural scientist, has often been described as the Austrian Darwin . Since he worked before Darwin, his work deserves more than this kind of associative equation, namely a serious scientific analysis through which the multiplicity of Unger's innovative approaches can be located in epistemic contexts. The unity in the approaches of all the essays collected in this volume lies in their concentration on both ...
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English summary: Franz Unger, palaeo-botanist, biologist, cell-researcher, ecologist, geologist, evolutionist and cultural scientist, has often been described as the Austrian Darwin . Since he worked before Darwin, his work deserves more than this kind of associative equation, namely a serious scientific analysis through which the multiplicity of Unger's innovative approaches can be located in epistemic contexts. The unity in the approaches of all the essays collected in this volume lies in their concentration on both local and international contexts, debates and knowledge orientations in Unger's work. The multiplicity derives from the interdisciplinary composition of the group of authors and in their differing methodological modes of access to Unger's concepts. German description: Franz Unger, Palaobotaniker, Biologe, Zellforscher, Okologe, Geologe, Evolutionist und Kulturwissenschaftler, wurde schon oft als osterreichischer Darwin bezeichnet. Bereits vor Darwin wirkend, verdient sein Werk mehr als eine solche assoziative Gleichsetzung, namlich eine seriose wissenschaftshistorische Analyse, durch welche die Vielfalt von Ungers innovativen Ansatzen in epistemischen Zusammenhangen verortet wird. Die Einheit in den Zugangen aller in dem Band versammelten Aufsatze liegt in der Konzentration auf lokale wie auch internationale Kontexte, Debatten und Erkenntnisausrichtungen der Arbeiten Ungers. Die Vielfalt ergibt sich aus der interdisziplinaren Zusammensetzung der AutorInnen und den unterschiedlichen methodischen Zugriffen auf Ungers Konzepte.
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