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Redaktion avhumboldt.de (TK) 9. März 20198. März 2019 0 Comments Alejandro de Humboldt en Cuba, Casa Humboldt, Casa Museo Alejandro de Humboldt, CENTRO HUMBOLDT, Cuba, Digital Humanities, Digitalisierung, Editionswissenschaft, Havanna, Konservierungs- und Editionspraxis, Kuba, La Habana, Metadaten

Job Opening in Berlin: Full-time Research Assistant (digital scholarly editions, project coordinator) at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The BERLIN-BRANDENBURG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (BBAW) is a public corporation based in Berlin. Its academic profile is characterized above all by long-term basic research in the humanities and cultural sciences. The Academy employs around 350 staff and has an annual budget of around 25 million euros.

For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Academy invites applications for the position of a

Research Assistant (male/female/divers)
in the field of Digital Scholarly Editions and Project Coordination
100% full-time position for an initial duration of 36 months.

The position should ideally begin as soon as possible.

Amerika-Reise English Humboldts Vita Neues aus der Forschung Zeitgenossen

Florian Schnee 5. August 201817. August 2018 0 Comments Alexander von Humboldt, Geographie, Höhemessung, Kant, Physische Geographie, Río Bogotá, Südamerika, Tequendama, Wasserfall

Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and the Tequendama Fall. Two Prussians linked by Geography

Immanuel Kant mentions in his Physical Geography the waterfall of the Bogota River in South America, known today as the Salto de Tequendama, which is located near Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. Kant claims that this was the highest waterfall in the world, which is not true. Alexander von Humboldt could not know anything about it, but he visited the Salto in 1801, just before the publication of Kant’s Physical Geography, and went to personally measure the height of the Salto. In this paper we make a comparison of both personalities who, unknowingly, were united by their interest in the Salto de Tequendama.

English Humboldtian Science Neues aus der Forschung

Florian Schnee 21. Juli 201817. August 2018 0 Comments Alexander von Humboldt, convivence of languages, cooperation, critical convivence, energeia, epistemology of expansion, Humboldt brothers, Humboldtian Science, multi-logical, multilingualism, Totaleindruck, Weltansicht, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Wilhlem von Humboldt, world science

Languages about Languages: Two Brothers and one Humboldtian Science

In der Vergangenheit sah die Humboldt-Forschung beide Brüder als Vertreter gegenteiliger wissenschaftlicher Ansätze. Heute jedoch kann ihr ähnlicher Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Sprache als Ausgangspunkt für die Konzipierung einer Universität, eines Museums und Forums unter einer einzigen Humboldtschen Wissenschaft genutzt werden.

English Humboldts Vita Neues aus der Forschung Zeitgenossen

Florian Schnee 15. Juli 201817. August 2018 0 Comments 100. Geburtstag, Antiklerikalismus, Eduard Dorsch, Festgedicht, Jubiläum

Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday

In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author.

English Globalisierung Humboldtian Science Neues aus der Forschung

Florian Schnee 15. Mai 20186. März 2019 0 Comments Wirtschaftgeschichte; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Kameralismus; Bergbau; Edelmetalle; Gold; Silber; Platin

A Political Economy of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold

In his “Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold” (1838) Humboldt presents a global history of the flow of precious metals from antiquity to the 19th century. This paper traces Humboldt’s economic thinking within his natural and historical research, starting with an outline of his educational background which incorporated late mercantilist and early liberal influences. It then discusses a world map and four charts drawn by Humboldt, which combine historical and contemporary statistical data into a cartographical vision of a global economic circuit. In a next step, the article explores Humboldt’s application of natural and historical research methods in the field of political economy, using the example of his 1838 essay. Finally, the article addresses Humboldt’s discussion of platinum, a precious metal whose limited natural distribution contradicted the idea of free global exchange.

Amerika-Reise English Humboldts Vita

Florian Schnee 19. April 20185. April 2019 0 Comments Alexander von Humboldt and America, Amerika-Reise, Amerikanische Reisetagebücher, Indianische Kulturen Mexikos, México, Mexiko, Natural history, Reisetagebuch, Vulkanismus, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Zeitgenossen

Humboldt’s Mexico. In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2017)

In Humboldt’s Mexico, Myron Echenberg presents a straightforward guide with historical and cultural context to Humboldt’s travels in Mexico. Humboldt packed a lifetime of scientific studies into one daunting year, and soon after published a four-volume account of his findings. His adventures range widely from inspections of colonial silver mines and hikes to the summits of volcanoes to meticulous examination of secret Spanish colonial archives in Mexico City and scientific discussions of archaeological sites of pre-Hispanic Indigenous cultures.