Article ID: CBB001200903

Divining and Knowing: Karl Sudhoff's Historical Method (2013)

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This article investigates the historical method of Karl Sudhoff (1853-- 1938), Germany's first professor of medical history. It argues that in order to understand his ideas more fully, we need to step outside the historiography of medical history and assess his methodology in relation to the norms and ideals of German academic history writing in general. The article demonstrates that the philology-based critical method of Leopold von Ranke (1795--1886) was central to Sudhoff's methodological thinking. It investigates the underlying philosophical and epistemological assumptions of Ranke's method, which tend to be less appreciated than his overt empiricism and explores how Sudhoff applied these to the new professionalizing subdiscipline of the history of medicine. The article argues that Sudhoff's concerns with the methodology of history, which involved a particular conception of the relationship between the human sciences and the medical sciences, offers compelling addresses to our times.

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Authors & Contributors
Frewer, Andreas
Steif, Yvonne
Snelders, Stephen
Schmidt, Gabriela
Roelcke, Volker
Riha, Ortrun
Journals
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
History of the Human Sciences
Gesnerus
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology
Publishers
Franz Steiner Verlag
Mabuse-Verlag
Govi-Verlag
Concepts
Medicine
History of medicine, as a discipline
Discipline formation
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
Manuscripts
People
Sudhoff, Karl
Puschmann, Theodor
Sigerist, Henry Ernest
Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim
Ranke, Leopold von
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
18th century
17th century
Places
Germany
Leipzig (Germany)
Netherlands
Italy
Institutions
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und Naturwissenschaften
Universität Wien
Universität Leipzig
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