Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache – Geschichtliche übersicht

The present article has the objective of giving an historical overview about the role of German as a former world language of science. The study consists of four chapters. After a brief introduction the second chapter depicts the transition of the language of science from Latin to German. The following section describes the trends in the 20. century on the basis of examples from different disciplines such as physics, medicine, chemistry etc. The last chapter deals with the reasons of the decline of German as the language of science.