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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meneghello, Laura

Titel

Jacob Moleschott - A Transnational Biography : Science, Politics, and Popularization in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Ist Teil von

• Histoire : 117

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Formalia and Acknowledgements 9 Introduction: Jacob Moleschott as Transnational Actor in European Cultural History 13 Jacob Moleschott and the Beginning of his European Career 37 Moleschott's Popularization of Physiology and Dietetics in Germany 113 Zürich: Meeting Point of European Liberal Elites 141 Experimental Physiology in Turin and Popularization in the Kingdom of Italy, 1861-1878 163 Moleschott in Rome (1878-1893): Scholar and Senator between Internal and Foreign Politics 223 Cultural Politics: The Civilizing Mission of Science 327 Moleschott on Criminal Anthropology and Penal Law 357 Moleschott and Translation 391 Celebrating Moleschott, Remembering Moleschott 429 Conclusion: Jacob Moleschott, a Transnational Actor between Science and Politics 439 Bibliography 449 Backmatter 489
• This is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in German, Italian, Dutch, French, and Latin, it not only sheds new light on the history of materialism in the natural sciences, but also shows the deep entanglement of science, politics, and popularization in 19th-century Europe. Applying new methods from cultural history and the history of science, Laura Meneghello focuses on processes of knowledge circulation, transnational mobility, and the role of translation in 19th-century science.
• »Meneghello provides an important contribution to the understanding of the interaction of biology and politics in the nineteenth century.« Florence Vienne, Metascience, 28 (2019) »Der Autorin [gelingt es] ein reiches und umfassendes Bild Moleschotts als Teil der Wissenschaftslandschaft seiner Zeit zwischen nationaler Sendung und internationalem Selbstverständnis zu zeichnen.« Carolin Kosuch, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 98 (2018/19) »A worthy successor to Frederick Gregorys landmark study of 1977 and a fine exemplar of the insight afforded by scientific biography.« Gabriel Finkelstein, ISIS, 109/4 (2018) »Meneghello hat mit ihrer Moleschott-Biographie ein Desiderat geschlossen, das spannende transnationale Perspektiven hinsichtlich der Rolle, die (Populär-)Wissenschaft im Prozess des europäischen ›nation-building‹ spielte, aufzeigt.« Claus Spenninger, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41/3 (2018) Reviewed in: de Nederlandse Boekengids, 4/2 (2019), Ad Maas
• Issued also in print.
• Laura Meneghello (PhD) is a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Modern European History of Knowledge and Communication at the University of Siegen. Her research foci are cultural and political history, the history of science and technology, as well as translation studies and the history of economics, infrastructure, and communication.
• In English.