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Leon Retz, M. Sc.

Doctoral candidate/Research Scholar
Portrait photo of Leon Retz
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  1. Retz, Leon Sebastian

    Doctoral candidate/teaching associate|academic staff Professorship History and Philosophy of Life Sciences
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    07743 Jena

  • Research School

    Leon Retz is a doctoral candidate at the Research School of the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imaginamics". The Cluster of Excellence is dedicated to the study of socially shared ideas, narratives and images. We call the practices of sharing such ideas, narratives and images 'social imagining'.

    Social imagining as a network of people and media
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  • Contact us

    E-mail: leon.retz[at]uni-jena.de

  • Short biography

    Leon Retz studied Social Sciences and German Studies in Würzburg and History of Natural Sciences in Jena. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics" and focuses on the practices through which, and the social conditions under which, imaginations of individuality and organisation were produced and transformed in the life sciences and other areas of society in 19th century Germany.

  • Research interests
    • History of the life sciences in the 19th century
    • Historical epistemology
    • Relationship between science and society
  • Lectures
    • „Von Zellstaaten und Staatsquallen: Praktiken sozialen Imaginierens in Biologie und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert.” ("On 'Cell States' and 'Staatsquallen': Practices of Social Imagining in Biology and Society in the 19th Century") Wissenschaftshistorisches Forschungskolloquium, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 04.12.2025, Jena.
    • „Unsichtbares sichtbar machen: C. F. Wolff und Goethes Morphologie.“ Wissenschaftshistorisches Kolloquium, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 06.02.2025, Jena.
    • „Haeckel und die Radiolarien: Finden, fangen, verarbeiten.“ Driburger Kreis of the Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik, 24.09.2025, Dresden.