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Alexander von Humboldt

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  'News from the Webmaster' is a regularly updated section at Humboldt in the Net. Here you can find brief information concerning the latest changes that have been made on the site.

 

2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 (G)

November

  • HiN - International E-Zine for Humboldtian Studies is now online with its fifth edition. This time with articles by Kristian Köchy, Gerhard Kortum, Ulrike Leitner, Oliver Lubrich, J. Alberto Navas Sierra, Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper and Sandra Rebok, including also an obituary by Ingo Schwarz commemorating Kurt-R. Biermann. There is more: the new edition of HiN presents all articles not only in HTML but also in the easy-to-use PDF-format.

  • There have been made some corrections concerning the upcoming Humboldt-exhibitions in Lima and Mexico-City. You can find the updated information in our schedules of events for 2002 and 2003.

  • In the Year of Geography 2002 the Humboldt High School Berlin presents an exposition titled: A vulcanic expedition following Alexander von Humboldt's footsteps. The opening will take place the 28th of November. Take a look at our calendar of events in Berlin for more informations.

October

  • The Kurt Stübers Electronic Library (Institute Max-Planck, Cologne) digitalized this summer the Humboldtian volume Picturesque views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of american people and published it in the net. Humboldt in the Net presents this work in an own article, including the linked chapter list and informs about further links of interest. Here you can read more about it. (G)

Excerpt from the volume - The Chimborazo

  • During four days of October the German television channel NDR transmits the documental series From the Orinoco to the Andes. Adventures following Humboldt's footsteps. Humboldt in the Net has researched a summary of all four parts and we also found a link to the page of the production firm. You can access these informations in the section "Humboldt in the media" in our online bibliography. (G)

  • The Humboldt investigations are expanding. There are many new publications concerning Alexander von Humboldt since we updated our section "Investigation" for the last time. See here for details.  (G)

  • Our calendar of events for Berlin has been updated with new dates. Read more about the upcoming Alexander-von-Humboldt-Day in October and other dates on our Berlin page.

  • In our series of online publications we have edited a new text. The scientific investigation by Ina Lelke analyses the letter correspondence Alexander von Humboldt maintainted with the wifes of famous scientists. Read the whole article here. (G)

August

  • In the net we have found a new map, drawn by Humboldt himself around 1800. It shows the Río Negro. See for yourself in our section of maps.

  • At the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) you can attend a series of lectures with the subject "Alexander von Humboldt Lectures in Human Geography". Read more concerning this educational offer here.

 

  • We also included the Department of Human Geography in our list of important institutions. See for more details here.

July

  • We recently installed a Sitemap for Humboldt in the Net to give you a short overview on the content of the site. With this, we try to ensure that the user can access fast and easily all the information that we offer.

  • We updated our bibliographical list with three more titles dating from this and the last year. For each publication, we installed an extra page with in depth information. See for yourself in our Bibliography. (G|S)

June

  • It has been one year since we have installed our counter. We would like to say THANK YOU to more than 4800 visitors. Come back soon and recommend us to other Humboldtians!

  • Timothy Rush's article "Alexander von Humboldt: A Republican
    Scientist in the Tradition of Franklin," is available in the Spring
    2002 issue of 21st Century magazine. Read more about the article in our list of new print publications. (G)

  • The spanish part of Humboldt in the Net is getting bigger. Now, we included the sections "News from the webmaster" and the archives for 2002 and 2003 and translated them to Spanish.

  • The starting page has been updated. Some of the contents were moved to the ongoing Archives 2002. In the Schedule for 2003 we already take a look at the Humboldt events to come.

Mai

  • The German newspaper Die Welt published on the 10th of May an article concerning the Humboldt symposion which was held between the 26th and 28th of April. Click here to get to the text.(G)

March

  • During this year's book fair in Leipzig there will be presented Ottmar Ette's new book "Alexander von Humboldt und das unvollendete Projekt einer anderen Moderne" . You can find it now in our list of new print publications. (G)

February

  • There will be a Humboldt symposion in Berlin during three days of April. See the program here. (mostly german)

  • Our Text-Link Directory has been updated. We found an original Humboldt text concerning "Problems and progress in Mexico in 1800".  You'll find the link here.

  • The Alexander von Humboldt Studies Center organizes the 4th International Humboldt Gathering this fall. Read more about this symposium in our article.

  • We are eager to present in the future new print publications with more detail on our pages. See for first examples here or here (in german).

  • The BBAW offers a lecture to the an excerpt of the Mexican Humboldt Diaries which has been found again. See for more details here. Read the article to this presentation at Süddeutsche Zeitung (G).

January

  • Humboldt in the Net has been intensively updated over the turn of the year. We are trying harder now than before to offer you a real trilingual information platform, even though it will not always be posible to update every information in each language at the same time. We also have tried to mark -more obvious than before- the language of our articles and links as it is the case with the 2001 link on this page. This process has not been terminated yet, but we decided to concentrate first on the english sites since our counter system informed us that an approximate 70% of our users use English as standard language in their browser configurations. The spanish sites, therefore, are still in the updating-process.

  • Our link-collection has been updated. Since the beginning of this year the Virtual Museum Prussia is online and offers a huge variety of interesting links concerning the history and actual perception of the Humboldtian "Heimat".

 

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