Thematic Mapping in 18th to 19th-century Germany

Lecture Series

27. März 2025

Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin

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

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