@article{Andress2018, author = {Andress, Reinhard}, title = {Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XIX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {36}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419398}, pages = {17 -- 34}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author.}, language = {en} } @article{Andress2019, author = {Andress, Reinhard}, title = {Addendum: a second Poem by Eduard Dorsch on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {39}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44258}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442585}, pages = {61 -- 70}, year = {2019}, abstract = {In a previously published article in HIN under the title of "Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday," I elaborated on Dorsch's poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt's world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch's voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on the same date in Monroe, Michigan. Although there are a number of similarities between the Detroit and Monroe versions, there are enough differences that warrant this addendum to my original article.}, language = {en} } @misc{AuhagenUth2022, author = {Auhagen, Christopher Patrick and Uth, Melanie}, title = {Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-58437}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584375}, pages = {18}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, '(in) that', instead of (en) el que, '(in) which', in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu'ux ('where') is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.}, language = {en} } @article{Baron2005, author = {Baron, Frank}, title = {From Alexander von Humboldt to Frederic Edwin Church}, series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {VI}, journal = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, doi = {10.18443/56}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35194}, pages = {7 -- 20}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Stephen Jay Gould wrote recently that "when Church began to paint his great canvases, Alexander von Humboldt may well have been the world's most famous and influential intellectual." Humboldt's influence in the case of the landscape artist Church is especially interesting. If we examine the precise relationship between the German explorer and his American admirer, we gain an insight into how Humboldt transformed Church's life and signaled a new phase in the career of the artist. Church retraced Humboldt's travels in Ecuador and in Mexico. If we compare the texts available to Church and the comparison of Church's paintings and the texts and images of Humboldt's works we can arrive at new perspectives on Humboldt's extraordinary influence on American landscape painting in the nineteenth century.}, language = {en} } @article{Buffon2015, author = {Buffon, Giuseppe}, title = {The Franciscans in Cathay}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVI}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {30}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86920}, pages = {13 -- 28}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The study analyzes the process that leads to the elaboration of the thesis of a continuity between the Medieval Asia mission and the New World mission. This effort, undertaken by the Catholic historiography of the mission during the XIX century, is the result of the impulse provided by Alexander von Humboldt's studies about the discovery of America (Examen critique). The data about the geography of Asia collected by the missionaries-travelers working in the territory between Karakorum and Khanbalik during the XIII e XIV century reaches Christopher Colombus with the mediation of Roger Bacon, whom Humboldt himself esteems as a true cultural mediator. The conclusion of the article tries to identify reasons and modalities of the secularization of the missionary concept, i.e. the shift from the ideal of the propagation of the Christian message to a prevailing interest for cartography and topography, transformations arranged by a late medieval historiography that introduces into martyrolagia the loca toponomastica.}, language = {en} } @article{BoehmHennemann2018, author = {B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {The Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in journalistic texts}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416094}, pages = {18}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This study adopts a cognitive approach to the analysis of the use of the Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in certain journalistic texts. In doing so, the main focus of the study is to investigate cognitive processes like modalization and subjectivization, which are related to the speaker's standpoint and to his subjective, not grammatically motivated, decision to use the imperfective instead of the perfective form. By the help of the corpus programmes GlossaNet and CREA (corpus of the Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola) we analyze the imperfective use of some Spanish verbs, which are semantically perfective in nature so that the normative use would require a perfective form. In other words, we investigate how the speaker/journalist construes a reality or situation to be expressed by means of the imperfecto and show that this use of the imperfect is typical for journalistic discourse.}, language = {en} } @article{Casas2018, author = {Casas, Vicente Dur{\´a}n}, title = {Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and the Tequendama Fall}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XIX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {36}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419404}, pages = {35 -- 46}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Immanuel Kant mentions in his Physical Geography the waterfall of the Bogot{\´a} River in South America, known today as the Salto de Tequendama, which is located near Bogot{\´a}, the capital city of Colombia. Kant claims that this was the highest waterfall in the world, which is not true. Alexander von Humboldt could not know anything about it, but he visited the Salto in 1801, just before the publication of Kant's Physical Geography, and went to personally measure the height of the Salto. In this paper we make a comparison of both personalities who, unknowingly, were united by their interest in the Salto de Tequendama.}, language = {en} } @article{Clark2005, author = {Clark, Rex}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt's images of landscape and the 'Chaos of the Poets'}, series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {VI}, journal = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, doi = {10.18443/57}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35209}, pages = {21 -- 29}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Alexander von Humboldt's descriptions of volcanic mountains in his travel journals (Reise auf dem R{\´i}o Magdalena, durch die Anden und Mexico) show both his reliance on and impatience with literary conventions and travel narratives. Using Goethe's Italienische Reise and B{\"u}rger's M{\"u}nchhausen as points of comparison for literary treatments of the volcano ascent, Humboldt's process of writing is examined. Humboldt shows the failure of the existing discourse and begins to experiment with narratives which fragment and recombine personal and historical modes of writing with, in this case, images from new technical inventions which visualize landscape according to fundamental scientific principles. While the inclusion of scientific prose is relevant, Humboldt's link to modernity is based on experimental narrative techniques which draw upon changing sets of discourse practices to describe complex realities.}, language = {en} } @article{Clark2001, author = {Clark, Rex}, title = {If Humboldt had a laptop}, series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {II}, journal = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {3}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.18443/16}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34630}, pages = {5 -- 20}, year = {2001}, abstract = {The difficult publication history and expensive editions of Alexander von Humboldt's volumes on the expedition to the Americas have resulted in incomplete library holdings which has limited scholarly access and sometimes caused unbalanced scholarship. A plan for a Humboldt Digital Library examines the structures and features of this representational system in print and proposes models for converting these materials to electronic form. Several issues posed by Humboldt's works include: establishing authoritative standard editions in several languages, creating high-resolution access to the many visual innovations in the works, and using software to restore the grand concept that all of the separate disciplines of study can be seen as interrelated parts of the whole. Using techniques of geographic visualization, a prototype is planned which will connect this historical body of knowledge with modern scientific databases.}, language = {en} } @article{Doherr2005, author = {Doherr, Detlev}, title = {The Humboldt Digital Library}, series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {VI}, journal = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, doi = {10.18443/58}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35215}, pages = {30 -- 34}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Alexander von Humboldt's maps, graphs and illustrations contain a great deal of detail, but in the available rare editions they are hardly visible to the naked eye. In many editions they have been reduced. In a digital library, they will become accessible in their entirety, and Internet technology will reproduce them in a form that overcomes the limitations of the original printing. The user will be able to enlarge the images and see details that might have been overlooked in the past. The Humboldt's digital library will adhere to the standards for digital libraries established by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the tools EPRINTS and DSPACE to provide the Web services and determine the most effective way to establish dynamic linking and knowledge based searching of information within the archive.}, language = {en} }