Overview of Herzog-Ernst Scholars and Hiob-Ludolf Fellows whose research projects were closely linked to the Gotha collections from the 19th and 20th centuries, and in particular, to the Perthes Collection:
Dr. Admasu Abebe Haile (Madda Walabu University)
Project: Beyond Cartography: Revisiting Antoine d'Abbadie's Studies in Making ‘Enset’ Culture (1840s-1890s)
Dr. Inessa Kouteinikova (Amsterdam)
Project: Alpinomania: the 19thC rise of panoramic photography technique and the step-change in the imperial image making
Christian Lemuel Magaling (Universität Bonn)
Project: Politik des Pazifiks durch deutsche Expeditionen und Atlanten Südostasiens und der Südsee
Dr. Sara Müller (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Project: Der deutsche Kolonialismus und seine Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt
Dr. Anne Sophie Overkamp (Universität Tübingen)
Project: Die Tropen auf der Fensterbank - Domestizierung und Kommerzialisierung der Natur im Zeitalter des Hochimperialismus
2023
Brenda Degger, M.A. (Universidade Federal do Paraná): The Frontiers Between Scientific and Literary Maps in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Albert Feierabend, M.A. (Universität Göttingen): Dolmetscher, Diplomaten und Schutzherren. Afrikanische Akteure und deutsche Expeditionen in Nordwestafrika 1850-1874
Dominic Keyßner, M.A. (Universität Erfurt): Eine neue "sozialistische" Kartographie? Zur Verlagsgeschichte des VEB Hermann Haack in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Dr. Nelson Chacón (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Die Expedition von Spix und Martius und die deutsche Erforschung Brasiliens, 1810-1830
Dr. Teferi Mekonnen Bekele (Addis Ababa University): A Geo-history of the Source Region of the Abbay (Blue Nile) River in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Dr. Danielle Heberle Viegas (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): Mapping the Green Hell: Perceptions of the Amazon Rainforest Through Cartography (19th and 20th Centuries)
Prof. Dr. Matteo Proto (Universität Bologna): Karten als Medien der Nationalstaatsproduktion: Das Beispiel Italien (1880-1900)
Dr. Erki Tammiksaar (Universität Tartu): Meisterwerk der Kartographie des Russischen Reiches "Atlas de l'Océan Pacifique" von Adam Johann von Krusenstern
2022
Admasu Abebe Haile, M.A. (Madda Walabu University): Conceptualizing Indigenous Spatial Knowledge and Boundaries in the Dawuro Kingdom, before 1889: Research on the Great Dawuro Walls (kati Halala Kella) in the Omo Valley, South west Ethiopia
Dr. Nelson Chacón (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Die Expedition von Spix und Martius und die deutsche Erforschung Brasiliens, 1810-1830
Prof. Dr. Jordana Dym (Skidmore College): The World Displayed: The Cartography of Western Travel Writers, 1450-1930
Jitka Močičková, M.A. (Akademie der Wissenschaften der Tschechischen Republik): Mitteleuropäische Nationen und Nationalitäten in kartographischer Darstellung (1800-1945) / Nations and nationalities of Central Europe in cartographic representation (1800-1945)
Prof. Dr. Zef Segal (The Open University of Israel): Maps on The Move: The Introduction of Motion into Modern Cartography
Alula Yohannes Tadesse, M.A. (Addis Abeba University): Remapping Medieval Ethiopia: Hagiographic Accounts as the Principal Sources of Cartography and Map Making
2021
Mimi Cheng, M.A. (University of Rochester): China on the Horizon
Marina Ferrari Waligora, M.A. (Universidad Nactional de La Plata): Coal mining and fossils: The work of Schlotheim in Gotha and the forging of a cosmopolitan science
Dr. Aychegrew Hadera Hailu (Bahir Dar University): A History of the Qemant
Samuel Kidane Haile, M.A. (Mekelle University): Bambilo Milash, Alawha Milash and Marab Milash in the Setting of Ethiopian History: A Geohistory of Northern Ethiopia in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Prof. Dr. Mirela Altić (University of Zagreb): Mapping the Missionary World: 19th Century Missionary Atlases with Special Regard to Justus Perthes' Production; Hiob-Ludolf-Fellow
2020
Dr. Aychegrew Hadera Hailu (Mekelle University): A History of the Qemant (aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie verschoben auf 2021)
Samuel Kidane Haile, M.A. (Mekelle University): Bambilo Milash, Alawha Milash and Marab Milash in the Setting of Ethiopian History: A Geohistory of Northern Ethiopia in the 18th and 19th Centuries (aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie verschoben auf 2021)
Hannes Wietschel, M.A. (Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen): Die photographische Werkstatt der Geographie
Dr. John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge): Science, Networks, and Knowledge Spaces: August Petermann and the Open Polar Sea
2019
Dr. Tomás Bartoletti (ETH Zürich): Gotha cartography and Swiss entanglements in nineteenth century’s Latin America: Johann Jakob von Tschudi’s voyages and his publications in the „Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen”
Anna-Maria Hünnes, M.A. (Universität Erfurt): Naturwissenschaftliche Netzwerke in Gotha um 1900
Dr. Alexander Meckelburg (Addis Ababa University): Local knowledge and foreign map-making practices: The Ethiopian-Sudanese borderlands on selected maps in the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Dr. Kerstin Volker-Saad (Berlin): Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskaus Orientreise 1834 – 40
Zegeye Woldemariam Ambo, M.A. (Mekelle University): The Kingdom of Kafa: An ethno-historical study focusing on the Ecological and Political culture of the Kafecho
2018
Michael Belding, M.A. (Iowa State University): Building a Nation: Agriculture, Landscape, and Citizenship in the American Midwest, 1820 – 1880
Dr. Valerio Larcher (University of Padova): The use of color in the Spruner-Menke „Historisch geographischer Hand-Atlas zur Geschichte der Staaten Europas“
Dr. Tetiana Onofriichuk (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): Humboldt’s Companions in Eastern Europe: Volhynian and Podolian‚ Homegrown‘ Naturalists and their Visions of the Region, 1800s – 1840s
Emily Teo, M.A. (Freie Universität Berlin/University of Kent): The Literary Kunstkammer: East Asian Objects in German and Dutch Travel Books
Prof Dr. Irina Podgorny (Universidad Nacional de La Plata): Die deutsche Industrie des Mate um 1900; Hiob-Ludolf-Fellow
2017
Dr. Haile Muluken Akalu (Mekelle University): Pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial cartographic trajectories underpinning Ethiopia's boundary conflicts with Somalia and the Sudan
Dr. Clarisse Sophie Roche (Université Paris-Sorbonne): A German Explorer of Arabia as Knowledge Broker in a transnational context: Ulrich Jasper Seetzen’s Contribution to Oriental Scholarship in the Early 19th Century
Dr. Sofiya Grachova (Harvard University): The Mapping of Ethnic and Racial Categories in the Contested Borderlands of the Russian Empire, Poland and Ukraine
Claudia Kreklau, M.A. (Emory University): Making the „Middle Class“ through Food, Foodways, and Food Discourses in Nineteenth Century Germany
2016
Dr. Sebastian Dorsch (Universität Erfurt): Wissen – (Um-)Welt – Aktanten. Translokale Perspektiven auf raum-zeitliches Welt-Ordnen in Brasilien: São Paulo, Belém und Xingú-Region (1870 – 1930)
Adam Dunn, M.A. (University of St Andrews): From words to numbers and maps. Transfers, networks and the transformations of statistical thinking in Britain, France and the German Lands, c. 1780 – 1840s
Hajo Fröhlich, M.A. (Freie Universität Berlin): Science, Entertainment, and Politics: A History of the Chinese Zoo, 1906 – 2008
Fesseha Berhe Gebregergis, M.A. (Mekelle University): Research on the Perthes Collection (Historical Maps) to Examine the Developments of the Lowland-Highland Territorial Concepts in Northern Ethiopia with the Example of the Dobᶜa
Jordan Girardin, M.A. (University of St Andrews): Travel in the Alps: the construction of a transnational space through digital and mental mapping (c. 1750s – c. 1830s)
Alwine Glanz, M.A. (Universität Erfurt): „... der freien Forschung dienen.“ Die geographische Fachzeitschrift „Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen“ zwischen Austausch und Abgrenzung im geteilten Deutschland (1945 – 1968)
Brice Kouakap Ndjeutcham, M.A. (University of Dschang): Landfrage und Landkonflikte in Kamerun: Diskurse und Gegendiskurse über das Bodenrecht (1884 – 2008)
Christopher Mapes, M.A. (Vanderbilt University): Germany’s Slavery Problem from the Enlightenment to the Second Reich, 1775 – 1890
2015
Kristina Kandler, M.A. (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Transkulturalität in der Almanachkultur (1778 – 1800). Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs „Göttinger Taschenkalender“/„Almanac de Goettingue“ und seine Konkurrenzunternehmungen (der „Gothaische Hofkalender“ und der „Historisch-genealogische Kalender“)
Dr. Ines Eben von Racknitz (Nanjing University): Das südchinesische Meer im Spiegel der Perthes-Sammlung und der Forschungsbibliothek in Gotha
Dr. Robert-Jan Boudewijn Wille (Universiteit Utrecht): Mapping climates and climatology. Cartographical practice in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany and the Humboldtian science of the Köppen-Wegener family
2014
Dr. Christian Lotz (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Nachhaltigkeit neu-skalieren. Internationale forstwissenschaftliche Kongresse und der Streit um die Ressourcenversorgung der Zukunft (ca. 1860 – 1914)
Dr. Michael Pesek (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Perthes’ Afrika. Geografie am Vorabend des europäischen Kolonialismus
Alrun Schmidtke, M.A. (Technische Universität Berlin): „Ungeahnte Schwierigkeiten des Kartenzeichnens“. Bruno Hassenstein und der Atlas von Japan, 1879 – 1887
Prof. Dr. Wolbert G. C. Smidt (Mekelle University): Vorkoloniale Kartographie Nordostafrikas von 1840 bis 1890 – Rekonstruktion lokaler Territorialkonzepte und deren Perzeption durch europäische Forscher am Beispiel der Kartographie in Gotha
Dr. Stephen A. Walsh (Harvard University): Naming the Void: Mapping the European Arctic in the Nineteenth Century
2013
2012
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2009
2006
International Conference and 4th Alumni Meeting: "Ulrich Jasper Seetzens Reise nach Vorderasien. Neue Ansätze der Reiseforschung"
In cooperation with the former Herzog-Ernst scholar Dr. Natalia Bachour (Zurich), the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt and the Gotha Research and Collections Association organized an interdisciplinary and international conference in June 2019. This event was held on the occasion of the 4th alumni meeting of the Herzog-Ernst Scholarship Program of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. The conference aimed to open new perspectives for the exploration of Ulrich Jasper Seetzen's travels, compile the yet unexplored sources, highlight various aspects of the material left by Seetzen, and discuss new approaches to its research.
The conference was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
International Conference and 3rd Alumni Meeting: „Falsche Prinzessinnen, Scharlatane und selbsternannte Experten. Hochstapler in neuzeitlichen Gesellschaften“
In July 2017, the 3rd alumni meeting of the international Herzog-Ernst Scholarship Program took place in the Orangerie Gotha. The thematic focus was on the phenomenon of impostors and fraud, which occurs in almost all historical periods. From the perspectives of various historical times and different disciplines, the speakers explored the implicit norms, rules, and expectations guiding behavior and actions within a society.
The conference was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
