Tomáš Hermann

Tomáš Hermann researches Czech and Central-European intellectual history and the history of science across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on the life sciences, philosophy, and historiography. He has published on Czech philosophy, the reception of evolutionism and Darwinism in the Czech Lands, Russian scientific emigration in interwar Czechoslovakia, philosophy and science in dissent and exile, and on relations between science and ideologies. His doctoral dissertation (2008) dealt with the work and legacy of the Czech philosopher and historian of biology Emanuel Rádl (1873–1942), on whom he has published several articles (and co-authored the proceedings of the conference Emanuel Rádl: Scientist and Philosopher, Prague 2004).  He is a long-time member of Society for the History of Sciences and Technology of the Czech Republic (from 2010 member of the Executive Committee) and is Editor-in-chief of its scientific journal on history of sciences DVT – Dějiny věd a techniky / History of Sciences and Technology (Prague; www.sdvt.cz).  His current project examines the natural sciences at German University Prague in the interwar period, as well as the reception of Lysenkoism and so-called Creative Darwinism during the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia. 

In 2019, Hermann was a co-organiser of the 'Creative Cities: Knowledge of Nature and Networks of Science' project, funded by the TORCH International Partnership Scheme.