The botanical network of Nathaniel Wallich between Copenhagen, Calcutta and Kew during the first half of the nineteenth century

十九世纪上半叶，纳撒尼尔·沃利奇 (Nathaniel Wallich) 在哥本哈根、加尔各答和邱园之间建立的植物网络

• 批准号: 275318084
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Martin Krieger
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Historisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/275318084?language=en
• 关键词: botanical; network; Nathaniel; Wallich; between

The project investigates global transfers of knowledge and institutionalization of botanical research during the first half of the 19th century with a special focus on colonial India. The Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854) serves as an example. The project rests on current methodological and theoretical approaches of environmental history and history of science/botany. Initially, Wallich had served as a royal surgeon in the Danish colony Serampore in Bengal. During the Napoleonic Wars, he became prisoner of war finally to be released by the British and to find his way to Calcutta. He became firmly integrated into the colonial networks of Calcutta and gained reputation as a talented botanist. From 1815 to 1846 he served as superintendent of the Botanic Garden of Calcutta. During this period, he established a tremendously far-reaching network on natural history and beyond. The most relevant source will be Wallichs written estate at Calcutta in its broader context. The Wallich-records will serve as a firm basis to identify the creation of global networks of communication and academic exchange. In detail it will be asked: How significant were such networks for enhancing individual careers as well as for the dispersal of current academic knowledge and imperial discourses with a special focus on botany? Furthermore, profession-alism and institutionalization of academic research in the colonial context will be studied. Did such processes take place notably during the first half of the 19th century? Practical aspects of research (collecting, transporting and exchanging natural specimen, etc.) will be studied as well. It is intended to contribute new evidence and aspects to the present debate on centre and periphery and on the idea of a Green imperialism. In detail, the Wallich-records will be analyzed with respect to structure and contents. Wallichs personal endeavors to promote his career, his serving as royal surgeon, his endeavors to collect, preserve and distribute plants and his contributions to reforestation and tea-cultivation as well as his activities regarding the Asiatick Museum and his library will be studied. The project has an interdisciplinary approach, however, with a special focus on historical as-pects. The applicant has gathered an interdisciplinary and international research group comprising historians, medical historians and botanists.

该项目调查了世纪上半叶植物学研究的全球知识转移和制度化，特别关注殖民地印度。丹麦植物学家纳撒尼尔·瓦利希（Nathaniel Wallich，1786-1854）就是一个例子。该项目依赖于环境史和科学/植物学史的当前方法论和理论方法。最初，沃里克曾在孟加拉的丹麦殖民地塞兰布尔担任皇家外科医生。在拿破仑战争期间，他成为战俘，最后被英国人释放，并找到了去加尔各答的路。他坚定地融入了加尔各答的殖民网络，并获得了天才植物学家的声誉。从1815年到1846年，他担任加尔各答植物园的负责人。在此期间，他建立了一个非常深远的网络自然历史和超越。最相关的来源将是沃里克在加尔各答的书面遗产在其更广泛的背景。该Wallich记录将作为一个坚实的基础，以确定通信和学术交流的全球网络的创建。详细地说，它会问：有多大意义的是这样的网络，以提高个人的职业生涯，以及为当前的学术知识和帝国话语的传播，特别注重植物学？此外，还将研究殖民背景下学术研究的专业主义和制度化。这种过程在19世纪上半叶发生过吗？研究的实际方面（收集、运输和交换自然标本等）也将被研究。它的目的是为目前关于中心和边缘以及关于绿色帝国主义思想的辩论提供新的证据和方面。详细地说，瓦利克记录将分析的结构和内容。沃里克个人努力促进他的职业生涯，他担任皇家外科医生，他的努力，收集，保存和分发植物和他的贡献，重新造林和茶叶种植，以及他的活动有关的亚洲博物馆和他的图书馆将进行研究。然而，该项目采用跨学科的方法，特别关注历史方面。申请人聚集了一个由历史学家，医学历史学家和植物学家组成的跨学科和国际研究小组。