The journeys of the botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838 - 1903) to the Ottoman Empire and Persia (1865 and 1866 - 1869). The annotated digital edition of his travel diaries

豪斯克希特植物标本馆由图林学植物学家卡尔·豪斯克希特(1838-1903年)于1896年10月18日在魏玛创立，目前位于耶拿弗里德里希·席勒大学，馆内有350万份植物标本，收藏了豪斯克赫特1865年和1866-1869年在奥斯曼帝国和波斯旅行期间收集的数千份标本。他现在转录的1000页旅行日记为这个收藏提供了一个迄今未被探索的背景，它们是这个项目的核心，由一个跨学科团队进行，其中包括属于该标本馆的植物学家和中东研究专家，主要是19世纪的奥斯曼帝国和波斯。除了植物学，这些旅行日记还提供了关于地质学、地理学、地图学、动物学的专家信息和详细观察，也提供了区域、社会、文化研究和历史。相关的地理参考地图允许精确定位标本馆标本和重建豪斯克赫特的行程，这与当时的常见行程不同。更多的档案材料，如书信、朋友相册(签名簿)和照相照相等，都是丰富和深化批判性评价和背景解释的补充要素。通过使用模块化软件(FUD，Trier)生成数字版本，对整个语料库进行处理、索引(植物、人、地点、事物，如果适用，包括拼写变体和当地术语)并进行注释。与图林根大学和耶拿州立图书馆合作创建的项目门户网站(http://haussknecht.thulb.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=301)正在逐步提供这些旅行日记的注释评论版，包括更多的档案材料，为标本馆的创始收藏提供了背景，并有助于适当地承认豪斯克特的科学个性和他对系统植物学和东方植物学发展的贡献。它对19世纪下半叶有关地区的科学史、文化史和接受史也有重要贡献。许多不同学科的项目介绍和专题讨论引起了广泛的兴趣。因此，该小组应邀出版了一本经编辑的卷(I.B.Tauris)，并与其他研究项目建立了联系并发展了网络。带注释的数字版将提供一个虚拟研究基础设施，为今后在不同学科进行先进的定量和定性分析提供潜力。

The internationally renowned Herbarium Haussknecht, founded on October 18, 1896, in Weimar by the Thuringian botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838-1903) and currently located at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, houses among its 3.5 million plant specimens thousands of specimens that Haussknecht collected during his travels in the Ottoman Empire and Persia in the years 1865 and 1866-1869. His by now transcribed 1000 page travel diaries provide a hitherto unexplored context for this collection and they are the centrepiece of this project, conducted by an interdisciplinary team including botanists belonging to the herbarium and specialists in Middle Eastern studies, mainly 19th century Ottoman Empire and Persia. Going far beyond botany, the travel diaries provide expert information and detailed observations on geology, geography, cartography, zoology, but also regional, social, and cultural studies and histories. The related georeferenced maps allow for the precise localisation of the herbarium specimens and the reconstruction of Haussknecht’s itineraries, which differed from the common itineraries of that time. Further archival material such as correspondence, an album amicorum (autograph book) and carte de visite-photographs are additional elements that enrich and deepen the critical evaluation and contextual interpretation. With the usage of a modular software (FuD, Trier) for generating a digital edition, the whole corpus is processed, indexed (plants, persons, places, things, including if applicable spelling variants and local terminology) and annotated. It is gradually being made available in the project portal (http://haussknecht.thulb.uni-jena.de/index.php?id=301) that has been created in cooperation with the Thuringian University and State Library in Jena (ThULB).The annotated critical edition of the travel diaries, including further archival material, provide for the contextualisation of the herbarium‘s founding collection and help to appropriately acknowledge Haussknecht‘s scientific personality and his contribution to systematic botany and the development of Oriental botany. It also has an important contribution to make to the histories of science, culture and reception of the regions in question in the second half of the 19th century. Numerous project presentations and thematic talks within various disciplines have attracted wide interest. In consequence, the team has been invited to publish an edited volume (I.B. Tauris) and has also established contacts and developed networks with other research projects. The annotated digital edition will provide a virtual research infrastructure that offers the potential for future advanced quantitative and qualitative analyses in various disciplines.