6 pm (CET)

Venue:

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Einstein-Saal

Jägerstraße 22/23

10117 Berlin

For registration, online participation and more information, please visit the BBAW event page.

From the language maps of Gottfried Hensel’s “Europa Polyglotta” (1741) and Julius Klaproth’s “Asia Polyglotta” (1823) to Oscar Drude’s global vegetational maps of the 1880s, German scholars made distribution maps on new subjects for new analytical ends. This session sets up a dialogue between two historians, Felix de Montety and Nils Güttler, based on their respective research on some of the earliest examples anywhere of thematic mapping that were created in mid-18th through 19th-century Germany.

LECTURES WITH DIALOGUE

Mapping the environment: the Humboldtian tradition

• Nils Güttler (Universität Wien)

Discussant:

• Marta Hanson (Academy of Johns Hopkins University; MPIWG)

Mapping Languages: from Gottfried Hensel’s “Europa Polyglotta” (1741) to Julius Klaproth’s “Asia Polyglotta” (1823)

• Felix de Montety (Université Grenobles-Alpes)

Discussant:

• Ute Tintemann (BBAW)

Part of the Lecture Series Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II, organized by Dagmar Schäfer, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann and Ute Tintemann.

In cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Max Plank Institute for the History of Science