Georg Toepfer

Georg Toepfer is head of the department »Knowledge of Life« at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. Main focuses of research: history and philosophy of the life sciences, with a special focus on the history and theory of biological concepts and the transfer of concepts between biology and other fields. Selected Publications: Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie. Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe (3 vols., Stuttgart 2011).