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Inhalt: Kröger, Björn: Remarks on a scene, depicting the primeval world. A talk given by Leopold von Buch in 1831, popularizing the Duria antiquior Roussanova, Elena: Hermann Trautschold und die Ehrung Alexander von Humboldts in Russland Schmuck, Thomas: Tod in den Anden. Ein Brief Francis Halls an Humboldt 1831 und seine historischen und politischen Hintergründe Schnoepf, Markus: Evaluationskriterien für digitale Editionen und die reale Welt Thiemer-Sachse, Ursula: „Wir verbrachten mehr als 24 Stunden, ohne etwas anderes als Schokolade und Limonade zu uns zu nehmen“. Hinweise in Alexander von Humboldts Tagebuchaufzeichnungen zu Fragen der Verpflegung auf der Forschungsreise durch Spanisch-Amerika Schwarz, Ingo: Hanno Beck zum 90. Geburtstag Beck, Hanno: Das literarische Testament Alexander von Humboldts 1799
The Prussian geologist Leopold von Buch was a lifelong friend of Alexander von Humboldt and had a significant influence on Humboldt’s geological ideas. In a talk, held in Berlin in 1831, which is published here for the first time, von Buch presented the Duria Antiquior of 1830 by the English geologist Henry De La Beche. The Duria Antiquior is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a scene of prehistoric life from deep time. The print raised new questions about the processes of geohistorical change. The talk reveals that Leopold von Buch was a true scientist of the Romantic Age. His descriptions of geohistorical organismic transformations are taken from pictorial examples of organismic transformation from the classical literature. The talk also illustrates how influential English geologists were for geo-historical reconstructions in Germany.