Thomas Bach is the Curator of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus. He studied philosophy and German studies at Stuttgart University and graduated with a Master’s Degree (1994). In 1999 he completed his doctoral studies at the Chair of Philosophy at Stuttgart University with Prof. Dr. Günther Bien with the thesis ‘Biologie und Philosophie bei C. F. Kielmeyer und F. W. J. Schelling [Biology and Philosophy in C.F. Kielmeyer and F. W. J. Schelling]’ (second examiner: Prof. Dr. Christoph Hubig). From 1998 to 2001, he was a research scholar in the research project 482 “Ereignis Weimar Jena. Kultur um 1800 [Event Weimar Jena. Culture circa 1800]”; afterwards he was assistant to Prof. Dr. Dr. Olaf Breidbach at the Chair for the History of the Natural Sciences at the Institute for the History of Medicine, the Natural Sciences and Technology. Since 2010 he has worked since 2010 as research scholar and as the Curator at the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, of which he was acting director between 2014-2019.