Johann Friedrich Blumenbach – online

The Blumenbach project is intended to fill a critical gap in the primary sources for late-Enlightenment and Romantic cultural history. Closing this gap is of special importance for the study of one of the most important aspects of this period: the rise of the modern natural sciences.
Projected are:
A new edition of Blumenbach’s original works including their translations and reissues.An annotated calendar of Blumenbach’s correspondence.An inventory and reconstruction of Blumenbach’s scientific collections.A documentation of his contemporary and later reception.The hyperlinking of the digital texts and objects.Biographical studies of Blumenbach.