Philosophical Society from 1972 to 1974, spent one academic year (1978/79) as Hochschulassistent to Jensen in Freiburg and another year (1989/90) at the MSRI in Berkeley
History of Science. From 1999 to 2001 he was an assistant professor (Hochschulassistent) at the University of Bern's Institute for the History of Science
in 1983 under the supervision of Karl Heinz Bennemann and became Hochschulassistent there in 1984. Between 1985 and 1987 he worked as postdoctoral researcher
profession in the subjects music and German. From 1951 on he worked as Hochschulassistent [de] and later as senior assistant at the musicological institute