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Boston University, October 8 - 9, 1999

A Symposium commemorating the 200 th Anniversary of the beginning of Alexander von Humboldt's five year pioneering expedition in the American tropics

 

Dr. Michael Dettelbach

is a historian of science and teaches the history of Old Regime and Revolutionary Europe at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Since completing his dissertation on Alexander von Humboldt's early administrative and scientific career in 1993, he has published extensively on Humboldt, including an introduction to the recent re-issue of Cosmos (Johns Hopkins, 1998). He is currently writing a book on the politics of Humboldtian Science and is at work on a translation-study of the controversy between Immanuel Kant and Georg Forster over the meaning of race in natural history and the authority of the explorer.

 

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