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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Online

The project “Johann Friedrich Blumenbach –Online” (www.blumenbach-online.de) aims at making the rise of German science within the European context visible, and at supplying a missing part in accessible primary source material on the cultural history of the time: the publications of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. This is particularly significant with regard to an essential aspect of this period: the emergence of modern natural sciences. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) was Professor of Medicine and Natural History at the University of Göttingen. Succeeding Albrecht von Haller, Blumenbach contributed substantially to the thriving of German science. Blumenbach’s works are a unique testimony to the European dimension of the then Republic of Letters. Today scientists are working on location in Göttingen, creating (1) a new edition of Blumenbach’s published writings including translations and reissues, (2) a calendar of his correspondence, (3) a reconstruction of his collections of objects of natural history, and (4) a documentation of his contemporary and later reception. All these documents are edited electronically for presentation in a web portal.

Partners

Permanent cooperation partners
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen
Verbundzentrale des GBV
Deutsches Textarchiv

Persons

  • Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer (Project Leader)
  • Dr. Heiko Weber (Project Coordinator)
  • Wolfgang Böker (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Claudia Kroke (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Nadine Schäfer (Research Associate)
  • Miriam Müller (Research Associate)

Contact

Dr. Heiko Weber
Arbeitsstelle Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Online
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Geiststraße 10
Raum 3.115
37073 Göttingen

📞 0551 – 39 2 15 65

Acronym
JFB-O
Running time
2010-2024
Project type
Edition

Contact person for the academies' programme

Sebastian Zwies M.A.

Geschäftsstelle Mainz
Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2
55131 Mainz

Tel: 06131/218 528-17
E-Mail: sebastian.zwies@akademienunion.de