Du Bois-Reymond Emil - Emil du Bois-Reymond: neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany

Acknowledgments

This is the first scholarly biography of Emil du Bois-Reymond. Since it is based on primary sources, I have retained original spellings. Except where I have noted otherwise, the translations are my own. Limitations of space have prevented me from citing most of the secondary material that I consulted to prepare this work, but I would be happy to provide these references to anyone who wants them.

The staffs of the following institutions graciously helped me in my research: the Manuscript Divisions of the Staatsbibliothek Preuischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, the Berlin and Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Alexander von Humboldt Forschungsstelle in the former East Berlin, the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preuischer Kulturbesitz in Merseburg and Potsdam, the Humboldt University Archive, the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach, the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Vienna, the Archive of the Jagellonian University in Cracow, the Archive of the Acadmie des sciences in Paris, the Archive of the City of Berlin, the Archive of the City of Vienna, the Archive of the Max Planck Society in Berlin, the Illustrated London News Picture Library, the New York Public Library, the Houghton Library of Harvard University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Winterthur Library, the libraries of New York University, the libraries of Columbia University, the libraries of Princeton University, the Bibliothque nationale de France, and the dozens of other archives in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that replied to my inquiries. I am also grateful to Mary Rose Kissener for granting me permission to reproduce images from her family collection.

Portions of were published in a different format in the British Journal for the History of Science (36, no. 3, 2003: 261300) and appear with permission of the British Society for the History of Science.

Portions of were published in a different format in Brain and Mind: Essays on the Hard Problem in the History of Neuroscience, edited by Chris Smith and Harry Whitaker (Springer, 2013), and appear here with the permission of the editors.

This biography would not have been possible without financial support from Princeton University, from the Berlin Program for Advanced European and German Studies, from Georg-August-Universitt, Gttingen, from the University of California, Los Angeles, from the Center for the Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and from the History Department and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado, Denver.

I am also obliged to Kannan Jagannathan and John Servos, for starting me off right; Kathryn Olesko, for suggesting du Bois-Reymond as a topic; Steven Turner, for indicating what questions I might bring to his life; Martin Rudwick, Harold James, Kathryn Olesko, Tom Browman, and Lynn Nyhart, for tips on how to conduct research; David Patton, Helmut Smith, Ursula Baumann, Doris Kaufmann, and Andre Wakefield, for discussing German history with me during my years in Berlin and Gttingen; Timothy Standring, for answering my questions about Victorian dcor; and Mike Allen, David Cahan, Andre Wakefield, Scott Gilmour, Jason Long, and Mary Rose Kissener, for reading parts of the manuscript. I also wish to thank Princeton University, Gttingen University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Colorado, Denver for bearing with me during the two decades it took to write the book.

Margy Avery, Katie Persons, and Paul Bethge at the MIT Press have been wonderful. I owe a debt to Jed Buchwald for bringing this book to the Press attention.

Finally, I want to thank my family for their inspiration.

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