The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany

by Kathleen L. Housley

Book Overview

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions. This book traces the entanglement of science, religion, and politics in the Third Reich and in the lives of Karl-Friedrich, his family and his colleagues, including Fritz Haber and Werner Heisenberg. Nominated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319958003
• ISBN13: 9783319958002
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"