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:

1. A new edition of Blumenbach’s original works including their translations and reissues.
2. An annotated calendar of Blumenbach’s correspondence.
3. An inventory and reconstruction of Blumenbach’s scientific collections.
4. A documentation of his contemporary and later reception.
5. The hyperlinking of the digital texts and objects.
6. Biographical studies of Blumenbach.