Research Project, 2010–2024

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Online

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A project of the

Academy, since 1970

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony

Information

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Type
Edition
Acronym
JFB-O
Project Websites
http://www.blumenbach-online.de
Academy Project Websites
https://adw-goe.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte-akademienprogramm/johann-friedrich-blumenbach-online/
Running time
2010–2024
Status
Completed
Funding
German Academies' Programme
Academy
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Location
Germany Lower Saxony Göttingen
Discipline
History Linguistics Literary Studies Philosophy Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine Medicine Astrophysics and Astronomy Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography Geology and Palaeontology

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.

Classification

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Temporal Classification
18. Century CE 19. Century CE
Spatial classification
Africa Asia Australia Europe North America South America
Research Objects
Bibliographic Listings Data File Images Images (3D) Language Link Metadata Multimedia Named Entities Persons Standards Text Text Bearing Objects Tools

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Research Activities
Content Analysis Relational Analysis Spatial Analysis Visualization Conversion Data Recognition Discovering Gathering Imaging Transcription Designing Programming Translation Web development Writing Commenting Publishing Sharing Annotating Cleanup Editing Contextualizing Modeling Meta: Assessing Meta: Project Management Archiving Identifying Organizing Preservation
Research Techniques
Bit Stream Preservation > Storage-Preservation Browsing Encoding Mapping Migration > Storage-Preservation Scanning

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

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