Klaus Hentschel

[1][2][3] Born in Bad Nauheim, Hentschel from 1979 to 1985 studied physics, philosophy, science, history and musicology at the University of Hamburg.

His thesis was entitled "Interpretationen und Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins" (Interpretations and misinterpretations of the special and general relativity theory by Albert Einstein's contemporaries).

After graduation Hentschel participated in a research project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on epistemic modal logic.

In 1995 he obtained his habilitation in Hamburg with the thesis, entitled "Zum Zusammenspiel von Instrument, Experiment und Theorie.

In 2006 Hentschel got a call for a Professorship at the University of Halle-Wittenberg for a period of five years in the field of comparative history of science which he declined.