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Tagged: nineteenth century

‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science

Shows how the history of “race” science can be transformed into a history of knowledge by focusing on the “collecting” process, concentrating on the endeavors of the anatomists Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), and Paul Broca (1824–1880).

Organizing Impulses: Reframing Adventure as Global Knowledge for Young Readers in Precolonial Germany (1841–1862)

“The role of the educator is to rhythmize the soul to [moral] virtue.”1 This conclusion to his 1841 faculty address to the Königliche Realschule zu Berlin captures the spirit of Theodor Dielitz’s educational philosophy....