Space, Time, Plants and Paper Botanical Exploration from Colonial Origins to Global Heritage

About this book

Language: Contributions in English or German

This volume sheds light on the critical role of both herbarium sheets and handwritten documents, such as letters and postcards, in advancing botanical research. While herbarium specimens provide essential details about plant collections, they often miss the rich contextual depth found in the correspondence between botanists. These written records, long overlooked, contain invaluable insights into the individuals involved in botanical research and the historical framework in which they worked.

The book originates from the workshop "Space, Time, Plants and Paper" organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance "Value of the Past". The authors draw attention to the wealth of archival material available and advocate its greater inclusion in modern botanical studies.

Contents

- Plants on paper - an introduction  / Katharina Schmidt-Loske, Willi E. R. Xylander & Georg F. Tschan   1
- Friedrich A. Körnicke and the origins of wheat: Economic Botany between Bonn, Berlin, and Palestine / Kärin Nickelsen   7
- Auf der Suche nach den "Getreidestammformen" - Brief- und Pflanzenwechsel zwischen Bonn und Weimar / Kristin Victor   19
- Letters, plants and travel in the context of 19th century long-distance communication: Georg Schweinfurth's correspondence with Friedrich August Körnicke / Georg F. Tschan & Katharina Schmidt-Loske   29
- (In-)Visible: The herbarium Carl Ludwig Blume from Indonesia and personal correspondence of Blume with his foster parents / Maria Will   43
- Eduard Rüppell (1794-1884)-his botanical legacy / Stefan Dressler & Joachim Scholz   53
- Die Selbstverständlichkeit globalen Denkens und ihre Widerspiegelung in der Flechten- und Moossammlung des SMNG / Volker Otte   65
- Three examples of cereal collecting in Northeast Namibia / Sandra Tamara Tikale   71
- Making Connections. Open Data for Transdisciplinary Provenance Research on Collections from Colonial Contexts / Katja Kaiser & Sabine von Mering   77

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