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▲'''Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke''' (* 22 Jan. 1944) is a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist.<ref name="Who is who entry">''Who is Who in the World 2011'' - 28th edition.</ref>
He studied biology and geology at the [[Groningen University|university of Groningen]] and geology and the history of science at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]]. Early in his studies, Rupke was a Christian and proponent of [[Flood geology]],<ref name="Why Not Creation?">Rupke, N.A. 1970. Prolegomena to a study of cataclysmal sedimentation. In Lammerts, W.E. (editor), ''Why Not Creation?'' pp. 141–179. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI.</ref> but later came to reject this position. When in 1977 he was elected to a [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] research position in the history of science, Rupke made this subject his full-time occupation. A series of similar international research posts followed, until in 1993 he took up a professorship at [[Göttingen University]] to teach the [[history of science]] and [[History of medicine|medicine]].<ref name="Carreer1">"Die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften als Lebensgeschichten", ''Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen'', 2005, pp. 313-322. Autobiographical sketch in the Yearbook of Göttingen Academy on the occasion of Rupke's election as a member of the academy.</ref>
Rupke is known for his studies of late-modern biology, geology and [[science & religion]]. With an interest in the biographical approach, he restored to their contemporary prominence several nineteenth-century scientists, most important among them [[Richard Owen]] who well before the appearance of ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' developed a naturalistic theory of evolution, albeit a non-Darwinian one.<ref name="Owen biography">''Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin'' (revised ed. of ''Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist'', New Haven and London: Yale, 1994) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009.</ref>
▲He studied biology and geology at the [[Groningen University|university of Groningen]] and geology and the history of science at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]]. When in 1977 he was elected to a [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] research position in the history of science, Rupke made this subject his full-time occupation. A series of similar international research posts followed, until in 1993 he took up a professorship at [[Göttingen University]] to teach the history of science and medicine.<ref name="Carreer1">"Die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften als Lebensgeschichten", ''Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen'', 2005, pp. 313-322. Autobiographical sketch in the Yearbook of Göttingen Academy on the occasion of Rupke's election as a member of the academy.</ref> Since 2009, Rupke holds a Lower Saxony research chair.<ref name="Carreer2">www.uni-goettingen.de/de/108191.html. Press-release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of education about the "Niedersachsenprofessur 65+" (Lower Saxony research chair) 2009; [http://www.zeit.de/2009/31/C-Niedersachsenprofessur Interview] with [[Die Zeit]]</ref>
Studies of [[Alexander von Humboldt]] came next,<ref name="Humboldt metabiography">''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'' (corrected edition). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.</ref>
▲Rupke is known for his studies of late-modern biology, geology and science & religion. With an interest in the biographical approach, he restored to their contemporary prominence several nineteenth-century scientists, most important among them [[Richard Owen]] who well before the appearance of ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' developed a naturalistic theory of evolution, albeit a non-Darwinian one.<ref name="Owen biography">''Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin'' (revised ed. of ''Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist'', New Haven and London: Yale, 1994) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009.</ref>
Rupke is a fellow of Germany's [[
▲Studies of [[Alexander von Humboldt]] came next<ref name="Humboldt metabiography">''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'' (corrected edition). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.</ref>, in which Rupke developed what he terms the metabiographical approach by exploring how a famous life – in this case Humboldt's – may be multiply retold and reconstructed as part of different belief systems and memory cultures.<ref name="Humboldt review">[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7091/full/441286a.html "Lives after death"]. Steven Shapin's review in [[Nature_(journal)|''Nature'']], May 18 2006, of ''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'', discussing Rupke's metabiographical approach.</ref>
▲Rupke is a fellow of Germany's [[German_Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina|National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]]<ref name="Leopoldina membership">[http://www.leopoldina-halle.de/cms/en/academy/organisation/members/list-of-members.html Membership listing of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften].</ref> and of the [[Göttingen_Academy_of_Sciences|Göttingen Academy of Sciences]].
*''The Great Chain of History: [[William Buckland]] and the English School of Geology (1814–1849)''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=232820|last1=Taylor |first1=Kenneth L. |author-link=Kenneth L. Taylor|title=Reviewed work: ''The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology (1814-1849)'' by Nicolas A. Rupke |journal=Isis |year=1985 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=106–108 |doi=10.1086/353765 }}</ref> {{isbn|0198229070}}
▲==Selected Books==
▲:* ''Distinctive Properties of Turbiditic and Hemipelagic Mud Layers'' (with Daniel J. Stanley). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974.
▲:*''Vivisection in Historical Perspective'' (ed.). London, Croom Helm, 1987; Routledge, 1988.
▲:*''Science, Politics and the Public Good'' (ed.). London: Macmillan, 1988.
▲:*''Medical Geography in Historical Perspective'' (ed.). London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2000.
▲:*''Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin'' (revised ed. of ''Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist'', New Haven and London: Yale, 1994) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
▲:*''Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography'' (corrected edition). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
▲:*''Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion'' (ed.) (revised and much expanded edition). Frankurt a.M.: Lang, 2009.
▲:*''Albrecht von Haller im Göttingen der Aufklärung'' (ed. with Norbert Elsner). Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009.
== References ==▼
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* [http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~nprofwg/Rupke.html Academic homepage].▼
* [http://univz.uni-goettingen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=6901 Faculty listing, Göttingen University].▼
▲[http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~nprofwg/Rupke.html Academic homepage].
▲[http://univz.uni-goettingen.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfoPerson&publishSubDir=personal&keep=y&purge=y&personal.pid=6901 Faculty listing, Göttingen University].
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