Safia Azzouni

Born 1969 in Berlin/Germany.

Safia Azzouni studied German and Romance studies at Freie Universität Berlin (state examination 1997) and received her PhD in German studies in 2004.

From 2004 to 2007 Azzouni was a postdoctorate fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and from 2007 to 2008 she was a fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. Since 2008 she is a Karl Schädler fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Her main topics of research are natural sciences and literature around 1800/1900 as well as the popularization of sciences, and popular sciences. At the Akademie Schloss Solitude Azzouni investigates strategies of popular science writing in the 19th and 20th century.

Selected publications: Goethes »Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre« und die Hefte »Zur Morphologie«, Cologne/Weimar/Vienna 2005 (monography); Dilettantismus als Beruf. Wissenschaft und Kultur im Spannungsfeld Experte – Laie, Berlin (editorship, together with Uwe Wirth) [in print, forthcoming 2009]; Der Wert des Wurms. Zu einer Parallele populärwissenschaftlicher und kulturwissenschaftlicher Argumentationslogik um 1900, in: Uwe Wirth (ed.): Logiken und Praktiken der Kulturforschung. Berlin 2008, pp. 43-55; Wissenschaftspopularisierung um 1900 als exemplarisch-literarische Rekonstruktion bei Wilhelm Bölsche, in: Nicolas Pethes/Jens Ruchatz/Stefan Willer (eds.): Das Beispiel. Epistemologie des Exemplarischen, ed. Berlin 2007.

Safia Azzouni is a fellow in the art, science & business program as part of a cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.