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.
REGISTRATION
You can find the registration form for on-site participation at the bottom of the page.
For a virtual participation in the event please click here .
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 | |
8 April 2025, 6 p.m. | Roundtable |