Johann Friedrich Blumenbach – online - Project details

www.blumenbach-online.de/index.php

The Blumenbach project is intended to fill a critical gap in the primary sources for late-Enlightenment and Romantic cultural history. Closing this gap is of special importance for the study of one of the most important aspects of this period: the rise of the modern natural sciences.

Projected are:

1. A new edition of Blumenbach’s original works including their translations and reissues.
2. An annotated calendar of Blumenbach’s correspondence.
3. An inventory and reconstruction of Blumenbach’s scientific collections.
4. A documentation of his contemporary and later reception.
5. The hyperlinking of the digital texts and objects.
6. Biographical studies of Blumenbach.

Lead/Coordination

• Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony

Affiliates

• Göttingen State and University Library

Project staff at the SUB Göttingen

• Christian Fieseler
• Martin Liebetruth

SUB Göttingen departments / units involved in the project

• Forschung und Entwicklung
• Reproduktion
• Spezialsammlungen und Bestandserhaltung

Former project staff of the SUB Göttingen

Mirjam Blümm, Martina Kerzel, Dr. Heike Neuroth, Sibylle Söring, Sven Thomas, Ubbo Veentjer