Georg Toepfer

Georg Toepfer studied biology and philosophy in Würzburg, Buenos Aires and Hamburg. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on natural teleology and completed his habilitation at the University of Bamberg. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at the Collaborative Research Centre “Transformations of Antiquity” at Humboldt University of Berlin. His publications include the three-volume “Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie. Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe” (2011) and the edited volume “Anthropozän – Klimawandel – Biodiversität” (2021), co-edited with Stascha Rohmer.