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Franz Maria Feldhaus (Neuss, 26 April 1874 - Wilhelmshaven, 22 May 1957) was a German engineer and historians of science and scientific writer.〔Hans-Erhard Lessing: ''Franz Maria Feldhaus. Kann man von Technikgeschichte leben?''. In: Peter Blum (Hrsg.): Pioniere aus Technik und Wirtschaft in Heidelberg. Shaker, Aachen 2000, ISBN 3-8265-6544-4, S. 80–93〕〔Marcus Popplow: ''Franz Maria Feldhaus. Die Weltgeschichte der Technik auf Karteikarten''. In: cut und paste um 1900 (= Kaleidoskopien 2002; H. 4), S. 100–114〕 He was known in the late 1950s as "Germany's well-known and most prolific writer on the history of technology."〔R. S. Hartenberg. "(Geschichte des Technischen Zeichnens by Franz Maria Feldhaus; Edmund Schruff )." in: ''Technology and Culture'' Vol. 2, No. 1 (Winter, 1961), pp. 45-49〕 == Biography == Born in Neuss as son of a pharmacist, Feldhaus studied electrical engineering without receiving his degree. Later on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1924 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the RWTH Aachen in recognition of his accomplishments in the field of the history of science. In 1928 he was elected full member of the French "Académie d'Histoire des Sciences." Late 1890s Feldhaus started to work as inventor and doing odd jobs, while starting to be interested in the history of science. In his Mannheim Workshop for Precision Mechanics he described himself as engineer - this term at that time still unprotected. In 1900 he gave up his practical activities and worked henceforth as historian of science and freelance writer. Feldhaus later attended lectures by Theodor Beck (1839-1917) in Darmstadt, who had published on the history of engineering. After his death in 1917 he inherited his estate and research in the field. Over the years Feldhaus built up without any government support an archive on the history of engineering, which became one of the largest private archives in Germany.〔 In Heidelberg and later in Berlin Feldhaus built a private institute, entitled "Quellenforschungen zur Geschichte der Technik und der Naturwissenschaften" (Source research on the history of engineering and natural science) in 1909. He also founded the company Historia-Foto GmbH, which might have been the first commercial image archive in Germany. Immediately after the Second World War in 1945-46 Feldhaus was appointed Director of the National Museum in Neustrelitz. The last years of his life he lived in Wilhelmshaven. In 1959 Feldhaus posthumously received the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille from the German Institute for Inventions. The poet and novelist Eva Zeller (born 1923) is one of Feldhaus' daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Franz Maria Feldhaus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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