Maria von Bertalanffy, the wife of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, kept a diary on all her private life with Ludwig since they left Austria (1948) until his death (1972) and beyond that. Obviously you will find in there important dates about the professional life of Ludwig. Each year sees one diary…

BCSSS Book Series The BCSSS launched the book series „Unity-Through-Diversity Two“. Please feel invited to contribute to the series. For details contact Wolfgang Hofkirchner.

The BCSSS members Gerhard Chroust, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Günther Ossimitz and Manfred Drack take part at the Fuschl Conversations 2008 (29.3 – 3.4.2008).

In the section Research – The Bertalanffy Archive, lists of all the letters, books & journals, and miscellanea which were found in the Bertalanffy estate are now available for download.

We are grateful to Charles François, the editor of the „International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics“, who donated part of his library to the BCSSS. In February 2007 we were able to open the boxes, which were containing lots of volumes of system theory journals and proceedings together with the…

David Pouvreau  (EHESS, Paris) presents „Die Stellung der organismischen Auffassung Bertalanffys in der Geschichte der mathematischen Biologie“ in Salzburg. Organized together with the Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Department of Organismic Biology, Department of Mathematics, in co-operation with the ICT&S Center at the University Salzburg.