title: [Biography as discipline tradition. The idealization of the pharmacologist Wolfgang Heubner (1877-1957)].
abstract: Taking a german professor of pharmacology, Wolfgang Heubner (1877-1957), as an example, the paper shows how hagiographic traditions were used to construct a scientific ideal in Post-War Germany. This ideal tended to (re-)legitimate German Science after World War II and to justify institutional and personal continuities in the 1950s, but I argue that it is a specific construction of the 1950s, thus serving to build a new image of science in a democratic society.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kessel
mesh_terms: D001680:Biographies as Topic; D003709:Democracy; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000266:history*; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*