Carl August Struensee: Reformer or traditionalist?

Carl August Baumann (1906-1999).

Carl Baumann occupies a unique place in the history of the American Institute of Nutrition (AIN) because as a graduate student he made the first oral presentation of research at the first annual scientific meeting of the society, which was held in New York in 1934. Thus, he initiated the tradition of graduate students presenting their research at the annual meeting. He was elected to membership...

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich and the evolution of clinical thermometry.

Johann Friedrich Struensee. Arzt, Aufklärer und Staatsmann

society. The growth of professionalism amongst Poor Law staff, the relationship of the workhouse to the community, and the neglected subject of the casual poor are amongst the subjects covered, but perhaps the most interesting chapter is that devoted to inmate life and culture. It is a difficult subject for investigation because few bothered to write about paupers, but Dr Crowther manages to co...

Raspail, Scientist and Reformer

soil in which they were found but are the remains of animals living in the sea on whose bed the soil (sediment) was deposited. The latter paper is a summary of a projected further work which unfortunately never appeared. It is the Prodromus that contained the first statement of the Law of Superposition; and much more. 'If, in a certain stratum, we find great abundance of rushes, grass, pine con...

Humanity or Enmity? Carl Schmitt on International Politics

This article reviews Schmitt’s analysis of international politics from the period of the Weimar Republic to the early years of the German Federal Republic. It highlights the importance of Schmitt’s opposition to Woodrow Wilson’s policies and ‘liberal’ universalism more generally for his understanding of and engagement with international politics. Confronted with the decline of the state (the En...