Early modern English and German collecting networks and practice: medicine and natural philosophy
- Halle (Saale)
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- Location Halle (Saale)
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The shift from a purposefully and playfully disordered Kunstkammer to the well-ordered Enlightenment museum is known. What has yet to be explored fully is the process through which this transformation occurred. This two-day workshop will investigate the role of learned societies in that transformation between England and German-speaking lands, focusing on the relatively understudied period from the foundation of the Leopoldina as a medical association (1652) to the start of the Royal Society Presidency of Joseph Banks (1778). It will explore why it was that physicians seemed to have such a seminal role in collecting and connoisseurship in both regions. Did medics in the Leopoldina, the Society of Antiquaries in London and the Royal Society have similar collecting practices, strategies, and underlying reasons for collecting? What were their contributions to the creation of wonder cabinets and early museums, as well as their development of norms of connoisseurship and classification of knowledge?
Participants will engage with the archives of the Leopoldina and the Francke Foundation’s extant Kunst- und Naturalienkammer (art and natural history cabinet) in Halle, a rare survivor from the 17th century. The workshop will include a public concert of baroque chamber music.
This workshop is part of a networking grant award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy. (Principal Investigator: Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln), Co-Investigator: Vera Keller (University of Oregon)).
Project partners included the Leopoldina, The Royal Society, The Society of Antiquaries of London, the Francke Foundation, The University of Lincoln and the University of Oregon.
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Kontakt
Prof. Dr. Rainer Godel
Leiter des Studienzentrums
E-Mail: rainer.godel(at)leopoldina.org
Tel.: 0345 / 47 239 -118