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Die persönliche Begegnung des Studenten Leichhardt mit Humboldt, die hier unter Einbeziehung noch unbekannter Quellen beschrieben wird, verlief enttäuschend. Dennoch stellte sich der junge Australienreisende, wie weiterhin gezeigt wird, ganz bewusst in ein Verhältnis von Vorbild und Nachfolge gegenüber dem berühmten Lateinamerikaforscher. Seine geographische Leistung machte Leichhardt, ungeachtet mancher Unterschiede, zum „Humboldt Australiens“;. Abschließend schildert der Beitrag das Eintreten Humboldts für die persönliche und wissenschaftliche Anerkennung seines märkischen Landsmannes, der seit 1848 im Inneren Australiens verschollen ist.
Themenschwerpunkt "Humboldt y la América ilustrada"
Inhalt:
- Anne Jobst: "Briefe wie gemahlt". Alexander von Humboldts Engagement für die Wahl Christian Gottfried Ehrenbergs als Mitglied des Institut de France
- Teodoro Hampe Martínez: Introducción al tema de enfoque. "Humboldt y la América ilustrada"
- Teodoro Hampe Martínez: Humboldt y el mar peruano. Una exploración de su travesía de Lima a Guayaquil (1802/1803)
- Jorge Ortiz Sotelo: Aportes de Humboldt. A la náutica y a la oceanografía peruana
- Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper ; Sandra Rebok: Alejandro de Humboldt y España. La preparación de su viaje americano y sus vínculos con la ciencia española
- José Ángel Rodriguez: Tras las huellas de Humboldt. Realidades y fantasía de la naturaleza venezolana en el siglo XIX
- Ursula Thiemer-Sachse: Observaciones actuales sobre la imagen de Humboldt en Latinoamérica
- Horst Fiedler: Ludwig Leichhardt und Alexander von Humboldt
Im Juli des Jahres 1841 kommt es zu einem Treffen zwischen zwei Männern, das zunächst belanglos erscheint, sich aber Jahre später als wichtige historische Begebenheit herausstellen wird. In seinem Pariser Büro empfängt der 71jährige Naturforscher Alexander von Humboldt den jungen Preußen Ludwig Leichhardt. Der angehende Naturwissenschaftler erhofft sich Zuspruch und Empfehlung des berühmten Alexander von Humboldts. Die Unterredung ist kurz und verläuft für Leichhardt ergebnislos. Es wird das einzige Treffen der beiden Naturwissenschaftler bleiben. Aus heutiger Sicht unverständlich, da Ludwig Leichhardt und Alexander von Humboldt mehr verband, als ihre Leidenschaft für die Naturwissenschaften. Viel zu wenig ist sich bis jetzt den biographischen Analogien und den vergleichbaren geographischen Leistungen der beiden Preußen gewidmet worden.
Inhalt:
- Thomas Schmuck: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Karl Ernst von Baer
- Reinhard Andress / Silvia Navia: Das Tagebuch von Carlos Montúfar: Faksimile und neue Transkription
- Tobias Kraft: Textual Differences in Alexander von Humboldt’s Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba. An editorial commentary on the first volume of the »Humboldt in English« (HiE) book series
- Aliya-Katarina Südfels: Ludwig Leichhardt und Alexander von Humboldt
- Ilse Jahn: Die Beziehung Karl Ernst von Baers zu Berliner Zoologen während seines Wirkens in Königsberg (1818-1834)
In this essay, I explore various politics of mimicry on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition. Following Michael Taussig, I read mimicry as embedded in a complex economy of gift exchange which disrupts the binary categories of self and other, subject and object, man and nature. Mimetic exchanges, in other words, bear the potential for a non-dualistic dynamics of depropriation, a dynamics which may be avowed or disavowed by various actors in the colonial encounter. Focussing on three actors in particularLudwig Leichhardt himself, his British botanist Daniel Bunce, and the intriguing figure of Mr Turner, an Indigenous AustralianI trace the ways in which mimicry-as-depropriation is dealt with across the colonial archive.
"The greatest son of our Heimat": reading German Leichhardts across the National Socialist era
(2015)
The article discusses German commemorations of Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) in the National Socialist era when officials, journalists, educators and writers, spurred by the double anniversary of the explorer's 125th birthday and the 90th anniversary of his disappearance, began to re-imagine the explorer's life and fate in the light of the ideological imperatives of the day. Our analysis of this period pays particular attention to how these reimagined Leichhardts emphasise or neglect some of the key elements that make up his story to this day, among them: Leichhardt's ethnicity; his sense of attachment to place and home; his homosocial relationships; his evasion of Prussian military service; his role in the British colonial project; and finally, his engagements with Aborigines. On the one hand, our analysis reveals, how Leichhardt was portrayed first on the local and, later, the national level in ways that increasingly sought to elide ambiguous aspects of his life and deeds. However, it also uncovers some of the ideological labour required to render him useful to the National Socialist cause. Often enough, these re-imagined Leichhardts escaped party politics, and cast up some of the logical inconsistencies and limits to key terms in National Socialist thinking.
Recollecting bones
(2018)
This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific disinterest'. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.
Recollecting bones
(2018)
This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific ‘disinterest’. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.