The appropriation of world knowledge. Adelbert von Chamisso's world tour (transcription, analysis, interpretation)

阿德尔伯特·冯·查米索(Adelbert von Chamisso，1781-1838)是19世纪最著名的作家之一，但他的大部分作品至今仍被忽视。他的一些诗歌和《彼得·施莱米尔》属于德国文学的经典，但他的科学著作和他周游世界的不同版本很少被研究。计划中的研究项目旨在探索19世纪上半叶文学和自然科学之间的联系。这项研究首次将诗人查米索和科学家查米索相提并论。这个项目的出发点是假设他的环球航行(1815-1818)在他更大的作品中占据了中心位置。结合他的信件(大量未发表)和他的科学论文，这次航行对于作者在1813年左右自称告别浪漫主义诗歌后所采取的独特的文学和科学形象是必不可少的。该项目的基础是抄写、出版和分析(迄今未被研究过的)旅行日记原件(可在柏林国家图书馆找到)。该研究小组将科学史、动物学、植物学和文学批评相结合，研究查米索作品中植物学、动物学和民族学知识的起源、适用和表现。与其他环球旅行文学和19世纪自然历史相比，该项目阐明了他的旅行记述、科学著作和晚期诗歌对不同知识文化以及不同的文学、诗歌和科学看待世界的方式的现代出现所做出的真正贡献。

Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) numbers among the most famous authors of the 19th century, yet the bulk of his work remains neglected to the present day. Some of his poems and Peter Schlemihl" belong to the canon of German literature, but his scientific works and the different versions of his Voyage around the world have rarely been studied. The intended research project aims to explore the connections between literature and natural science in the first half of the 19th century. This study gives equal credit to Chamisso the poet and Chamisso the scientist for the first time. The starting point of the project is the hypothesis that his voyage around the world (1815-1818) occupies a central position in the larger body of his work. Combined with his (widely unpublished) letters and his scientific papers, the voyage is essential to the unique literary and scientific persona that the author adopted after his self-proclaimed farewell to romantic poetry around 1813. The basis of this project consists in the transcription, publication and analysis of the (hitherto unstudied) original diaries of the travels (found in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). The research group combines history of science, zoology, botany and literary criticism to study the genesis, appropriation and representation of botanical, zoological and ethnografic knowledge in the work of Chamisso. In comparison with other world-travel literature and 19th-century natural history, the project elucidates the genuine contribution of his travel accounts, scientific work and late poetry made to the modern emergence of different cultures of knowledge as well as separate, i.e. literary, poetic and scientific, ways of seeing the world.