Sharing Natural Histories. The Breyne Family of Gdańsk (c. 1670-1760)
Leipzig, 13th-15th June 2024, Leipzig University
Venue: University Library Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig
Thursday, 13/06/24
12.30-12.45 Nadja Horsch (Leipzig): Welcome
12.45-13.15 Julia Schmidt-Funke, Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Introduction
Panel I “Transregional Networks of Knowledge”
(Chair: Rainer Godel, Halle)
13.15-14.00 Julia C. Böttcher (Erlangen): Res Publica Medica: Members of the Early Leopoldina as Case Studies in a History of (Scientific) Communities
14.00-14.45 Sebastian Kühn (Berlin): Breyne in the Tavern. Drinking Practices as Scholarly Networking
14.45-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.00 Bettina Dietz (Gotha): Correspondence Networks – Networked Texts: Practices of Writing, Reading, and Publishing in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Botany
Panel II “Erudite Exchange and Social Life”
(Chair: Meike Knittel, Berlin)
16.00-16.45 Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Poznań): J.P. Breyne and his Peregrinatio Medica: The Impact of Breyne’s Medical Travels on his Future Career and Interests
16.45-17.15 Coffee break
17.15-18.00 Edmund Kizik (Gdańsk): Times of Uncertainty - Gdańsk in the 18th Century
Keynote Speech
18.15-19.15 Alix Cooper (Stony Brook): Naturalists in the Family: The Breynes and the Domestic Contexts of Early Modern Natural History
19.15 Reception
Friday, 14/06/24
Panel III “Media and Repositories of Knowledge”
(Chair: Michael Kempe, Hannover)
09.00-09.45 Rebecca Partikel (Marburg): Reference, Draft, or Alternative Suggestion? Exploring a Drawing for Jacob Breyne’s Exoticarum Plantarum (…) Centuria Prima (1678)
09.45-10.30 Alette Fleischer (Amsterdam): Jacob Breyne’s Herbarium Books: Intersecting between Private Use to Public Contacts
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.45 Mark Carine (London): Assembling and Cataloguing Global Plant Diversity: Hans Sloane, James Petiver and the ‘Sloane Herbarium’
11.45-12.30 Julia Schmidt-Funke (Leipzig): Of Mammoth Bones and Borametz. Practices of Knowledge in and around the Breynes’ Natural History Cabinet
12.30-13.15 Lunch
Panel IV “Gardens as Spaces of Knowledge”
(Chair: Marcus R. Köhler, Dresden)
13.15-14.00 Marianne Klemun (Wien): Botanical Gardens: Urban Places and Natural Spaces of Knowledge in Early Modern Times
14.00-14.45 Aleid Offerhaus (Leiden): Collecting and Cultivating Plants. The Collaborative Efforts of Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) and his Gardeners in Transforming the Leiden Botanical Garden
14.45-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-16.00 Lisa Johnson (Utrecht): New Technologies for Cultivating Exotic Fruit in Early Modern Northern Europe: The Dutch Experience
16.00-16.45 Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Johann Philipp Breyne’s Garden and his Botanical and Horticultural Networks
Closing Remarks and Discussion
16.45-17.30 Kärin Nickelsen (Munich): Sharing Natural Histories. Perspectives of Interdisciplinary Research
Visit of the Botanical Garden
18.00-19.00 Guided Tour through the Botanical Garden of Leipzig University
19.00 Conference dinner
Saturday, 15/06/2024
Excursion to Gotha Research Library
07.00 Gathering at Leipzig Main Station
07.30-08.30 Travel to Gotha
08.30-09.00 Walk to Gotha Research Library
09.15-09.30 Welcome
09.30-11.00 Monika E. Müller (Gotha): The Breyne Papers in the Gotha Research Library
11.00-12.00 Guided Tour through Gotha Research Library
12.00-12.30 Lunch
Further details on the conference, organizers, and venue can be found under the following link: https://tinyurl.com/sharingnaturalhistories