Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany

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.

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PROGRAMME

Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany

Mapping the environment: the Humboldtian tradition

Nils Güttler, Universität Wien

Discussant:

Marta Hanson, Academy of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Affiliate of 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

THE LECTURE SERIES

Maps and Mapping in Global History and Culture II

22 January 2025, 6 p.m.	Panel discussion	How Plague became Globally Visible – Mapping as Method in Modern Western Medicine
6 March 2025, 6 p.m.	Lecture with Dialogue	Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany
27 March 2025, 6 p.m.	Lecture with Dialogue	Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany
8 April 2025, 6 p.m.	Roundtable	House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies