Olaf Breidbach

Olaf Breidbach studied art, philosophy, biology, and paleontology. Since 1995 he has occupied the chair in History of the Natural Sciences and been director of the Institute for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Technology at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, director of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus Museum, leader of the department of Theoretical Biology at the Biological-Pharmaceutical faculty of the University of Jena, and a member of the Collaborative Research Center 482 "Ereignis Weimar-Jena. Kultur um 1800" (The Weimar-Jena Episode: Culture around 1800).