BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2486@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240326T164300 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240402T120000 SUMMARY:Talk by Elisa Sevilla:"Moving birds\, snails and tarantulas across the Atlantic in the 19th Century: History of the South American specimen c ollections in Europe" DESCRIPTION:This talk traces how the natural history collections made both by people living in America or European travelers to Ecuador\, Colombia an d Peru were transported\, and then kept and studied in Europe. We will dis cuss the scientific networks that span the Atlantic and included traveler naturalists from Europe and the Americas\, local collectors\, guides and h osts\, diplomats\, merchants and sailors. We will then focus on two less k nown expeditions from the German speaking Europe: 1) Ludwig Karl Schmarda who visited Ecuador as part of his travels around the world between 1855 a nd 1856\, and 2) The German Jesuit naturalists Christian Boetzkes and Theo dor Wolf who participated in the establishment of the Quito Polytechnic Sc hool in 1870-1876.\\r\\nWe will analyse Schmarda’s travel diary publishe d in 1861 as “Reise um die Erde in den Jahren 1853–1857” as well as the Jesuits Theodor Wolf and Christian Boetzkes’ published works and man uscripts to talk about their practices of collection of zoological specime ns and the participation of local people in this process. We will then dis cuss how the collections moved across the Atlantic to different scholars a nd museums in Europe\, including Schmarda’s zoological specimens in the  Naturhistorisches Museum Wien\, the Jesuits bird collections at Konsta nz University\, and snails studied by Konrad Miller now hosted at the Bri tish Natural History Museum. X-ALT-DESC:

This talk traces how the natural history collections made bot h by people living in America or European travelers to Ecuador\, Colombia and Peru were transported\, and then kept and studied in Europe. We will d iscuss the scientific networks that span the Atlantic and included travele r naturalists from Europe and the Americas\, local collectors\, guides and hosts\, diplomats\, merchants and sailors. We will then focus on two less known expeditions from the German speaking Europe: 1) Ludwig Karl Schmard a who visited Ecuador as part of his travels around the world between 1855 and 1856\, and 2) The German Jesuit naturalists Christian Boetzkes and Th eodor Wolf who participated in the establishment of the Quito Polytechnic School in 1870-1876.

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We will analyse Schmarda’s travel diary pub lished in 1861 as “Reise um die Erde in den Jahren 1853–1857” as wel l as the Jesuits Theodor Wolf and Christian Boetzkes’ published works an d manuscripts to talk about their practices of collection of zoological sp ecimens and the participation of local people in this process. We will the n discuss how the collections moved across the Atlantic to different schol ars and museums in Europe\, including Schmarda’s zoological specimens in the \;Naturhistorisches Museum Wien\, \;the Jesuits bird collections at \;Konstanz University\, and snails studied by Konrad Miller now hosted at the \;British Natural History Museum< /em>.

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