“Very Early, the Enjoyment of Nature Research and Mountaineering Awoke in Me”: Autobiographical Narratives of Lives in Earth Sciences (Early Twentieth Century, Vienna)

Klos S (2025)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Edited Volumes: Earth-Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge?

City/Town: New York

ISBN: 9781040559611

DOI: 10.4324/9781003612339_5

Abstract

A comparative discourse-analytical framework of autobiographical narratives can provide insights into a scientific community’s communication formats, actors, networks, hierarchies, and socio-epistemic value systems. This paper examines the self-written curriculum vitae of three geologists who were members of the Geological Survey and the Academy of Sciences in Vienna in the first half of the twentieth century. The aim is to discuss historical self-representations in relation to the authors’ social and disciplinary backgrounds.

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APA:

Klos, S. (2025). “Very Early, the Enjoyment of Nature Research and Mountaineering Awoke in Me”: Autobiographical Narratives of Lives in Earth Sciences (Early Twentieth Century, Vienna). In Norman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun (Eds.), Earth-Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge?. New York: Taylor and Francis.

MLA:

Klos, Sandra. "“Very Early, the Enjoyment of Nature Research and Mountaineering Awoke in Me”: Autobiographical Narratives of Lives in Earth Sciences (Early Twentieth Century, Vienna)." Earth-Knowledge: History of Earth Sciences as Histories of Knowledge?. Ed. Norman Henniges, Johannes Mattes, Marianne Klemun, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2025.

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