PD Dr. Georg Toepfer

Georg Toepfer is Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin.

He studied Biology and Philosophy and received his diploma in Biology from the University of Würzburg, his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Hamburg and a post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in Philosophy from the University of Bamberg.

His principal area of research is the history and philosophy of the life sciences, with a special focus on the the transfer of concepts between Biology and other fields. Major publication: »Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie. Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe« (3 vols., Stuttgart: Metzler, 2011).