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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>
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 [[metabiography|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]].
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