We are pleased to present this recently released publication. The ZIRS is a cooperation partner of the project Der Botaniker Karl Haussknecht.
The internationally renowned Herbarium Haussknecht, founded by the Thuringian botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838–1903) in Weimar on October 18, 1896 and now located at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, preserves among its 3.5 million plant specimens thousands of specimens that Haussknecht brought back from his travels in the Ottoman Empire and Persia (1865 and 1866–1869).
An interdisciplinary team of botanists from the herbarium and orientalists with special expertise in the Ottoman Empire and Persia in the 19th century, as well as numerous collaborations with other disciplines, are working on the identification and critical commentary of plant names, geographical designations and local events and conditions with a very high scientific and cultural-historical relevance
As part of a cooperation of the project team, a shortened “reading version” of the diary texts has now been released by the Bamberg University Press under the title “Die Reisetagebücher des Botanikers Carl Haussknecht”.
Both volumes, Volume 1: Osmanisches Reich 1865–1867, Volume 2: Persien 1867–1869, stehen zum Herunterlanden bereit.