Michael Hagner

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Michael Hagner studied Medicine and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin (1980–86). After gaining his M.D. in 1986, he worked as a neurophysiologist at the FU Berlin. In 1989, he was a visiting scholar at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. He worked at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science in Lübeck (1989–91) and at the Institute for the History of Medicine in Göttingen (1991–95), where he obtained his habilitation at the Medical Faculty (1994). In 1995 he received a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation and moved to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute. Hagner was visiting professor at the universities of Salzburg, Tel Aviv, Frankfurt am Main and Cologne. He was a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum (2001), at the Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung in Berlin (2006 and 2007) and at the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme in Paris (2008). He has been awarded the Prize of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science in 2000; in 2008 he has been awarded the Sigmund-Freud-Preis für wissenschaftliche Prosa by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Michael Hagner is member of the external page Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, the external page Leopoldina, and the external page Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.

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