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

该项目调查了19世纪上半叶植物研究的全球知识转移和制度化，特别关注殖民时期的印度。丹麦植物学家纳撒尼尔·沃利奇（Nathaniel Wallich, 1786-1854）就是一个例子。该项目基于当前环境史和科学史/植物学的方法论和理论方法。最初，沃利奇曾在孟加拉的丹麦殖民地塞兰波尔担任皇家外科医生。在拿破仑战争期间，他成为战俘，最终被英国人释放，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，并赢得了作为一个有才华的植物学家的声誉。从1815年到1846年，他担任加尔各答植物园的负责人。在此期间，他在自然史和其他领域建立了一个影响深远的网络。在更广泛的背景下，最相关的资料来源将是沃利奇在加尔各答的书面遗产。沃利奇记录将成为确定全球通信和学术交流网络创建的坚实基础。具体问题是：这样的网络对于提高个人的职业生涯，以及传播当前的学术知识和以植物学为重点的帝国话语有多重要？此外，将研究殖民地背景下学术研究的专业化和制度化。这样的过程在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）也将进行研究。它旨在为当前关于中心和边缘以及绿色帝国主义思想的辩论提供新的证据和方面。详细地说，我们将从结构和内容两方面分析沃利奇记录。沃里克个人为促进他的事业所做的努力，他作为皇家外科医生的工作，他收集、保存和分发植物的努力，他对重新造林和茶叶种植的贡献，以及他在亚洲博物馆和他的图书馆的活动将被研究。然而，该项目采用跨学科的方法，特别关注历史方面。申请人汇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国际研究小组。

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.