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History of Cartography: Books by Jutta Faehndrich

Als Künstler und Kartograph im Heiligen Land (1851/52): Die drei Palästina des C.W.M. van de Velde, Dec 21, 2020

Das Heilige Land in Reiseberichten, Landschaftsansichten und Karten: Die faszinierende Geschichte... more Das Heilige Land in Reiseberichten, Landschaftsansichten und Karten: Die faszinierende Geschichte eines Pioniers der Palästina-Kartographie (Buchvorschau)

Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine; London: I.B. Tauris, 2017

Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the form... more Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles Meredith van de Velde, who produced the finest map of the region at the time; and Edward Robinson, founder of modern Palestinology – the authors explore the complex cultural, cartographic and technical processes that shaped and determined the resulting maps of the region. Making full use of newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, Mapping the Holy Land is essential reading for cartographers, historical geographers, historians of mapmaking, and for all those with an interest in the Holy Land and the history of Palestine.

History of Philosophy: Papers by Jutta Faehndrich

This 2015 working paper, unpublished as of yet, takes a closer look at Ernst Cassirer's last publ... more This 2015 working paper, unpublished as of yet, takes a closer look at Ernst Cassirer's last public talk and its contribution to the problem of a methodology of the humanities. Suggestions concerning a place for publication welcome.

Migration and Local Identity: Papers by Jutta Faehndrich

Drawing upon findings on the memory culture of German expellees after World War II, this essay ta... more Drawing upon findings on the memory culture of German expellees after World War II, this essay takes a both scholarly and personal look at the inner-German migration after 1990. Based on the concept of Heimat as social space, it discusses what leaving, looking back and returning mean to the migrant and their surroundings. A short typology of loss through migration is followed by outlining possible gains of leaving home for better or for worse. What can we learn about dealing with migration experience from the German expellees’ case? How to make sense of and integrate migration into a biographical or group narration? Finally, the essay points out that returning migrants may feel a sense of alienation, as not only themselves but also their place of origin will have changed in their absence.

History of Cartography: Papers by Jutta Faehndrich

Römische Historische Mitteilungen, 2019

The 19th century was the golden age of explorers and expeditions. However, their lust for discove... more The 19th century was the golden age of explorers and expeditions. However, their lust for discovery was not about information as such -indigenous people probably knew their surroundings well enough -but helped to construct a decidedly Western body of knowledge about the world. Unlike Africa or the Americas, the region referred to as the Holy Land had been well known since antiquity, with its biblical topography firmly in Catholic and Christian Orthodox hands. Over the course of the 19th century, the relatively young Protestantism was able to gain ground. Invested with historical-critical theology and philology, the new modern Biblical Geography established knowledge according to newly defined scientific standards.

Contribution to the Catalogue (German only) "The Holy Land in Gotha. The Publishing House of Just... more Contribution to the Catalogue (German only) "The Holy Land in Gotha. The Publishing House of Justus Perthes and Palestine Cartography in the 19th Century", ed. by Petra Weigel et al., Gotha 2014. Pre-print self-archived version; please compare the published text in: Weigel, Petra (ed.): Das Heilige Land in Gotha. Der Verlag Justus Perthes und die Pallästinakartographie im 19. Jahrhundert. Herausgegeben in Verbindung mit Haim Goren, Bruno Schelhaas und Jutta Faehndrich. Gotha 2014 (Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha; 50), p. xxx

History of Cartography: Talks by Jutta Faehndrich

Universität Duisburg-Essen, Historisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschicht... more Universität Duisburg-Essen, Historisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 3. Kartengeschichtliches Kolloquium, November 16–17, 2012

"Das 19. Jahrhundert gilt als das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen und Karten als deren hervorragendste... more "Das 19. Jahrhundert gilt als das Zeitalter der Entdeckungen und Karten als deren hervorragendstes Medium. Das Heilige Land musste allerdings nicht erst 'entdeckt' werden, es war seit der Antike in der westlichen Welt bestens bekannt. Trotzdem war die Region im Jahrhundert der Forschungsreisen ein wichtiges Ziel europäischer Reisender. Sie kamen jedoch nicht nur mit Theodolit und Barometer, sondern vor allem mit der Bibel in der Hand. Am Beispiel der großen Palästinakarte des niederländischen Marineoffiziers, Kartografen und Malers Charles William Meredith van de Velde, die 1858 bei Justus Perthes in Gotha verlegt wurde, wirft der Vortrag ein Licht darauf, was gerade für die aufgeklärten Protestanten die große Faszination dieses kleinen Fleckchens Erde ausmachte. Faehndrich wertete dafür erstmals umfassend die in der Sammlung Perthes überlieferten Produktionsmaterialien der Karte van de Veldes und dessen Schriftwechsel mit dem Verlag aus."

Im Rahmen der 3. Gothaer Kartenwochen, November 20, 2012; Spiegelsaal, Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha (public evening lecture)

"In 1858, the Gotha publishing house of Justus Perthes produced a “Map of the Holy Land”. The aut... more "In 1858, the Gotha publishing house of Justus Perthes produced a “Map of the Holy Land”. The author and cartographer of this large-scale topographical map of Palestine was Charles William Meredith van de Velde (1818-1898), former cartographer of the Dutch Royal Navy, landscape painter, and devoted protestant. Van de Velde was a typical representative of 19th century scientific cartography: “Many of [the existing maps] are filled up with cities and places laid down merely according to fancy”, he wrote and claimed to have made a complete, up-to-date, no-nonsense map of the region, based only on reliable, first-hand information. He had even travelled to Palestine himself to survey regions formerly neglected by cartographers and explorers. And indeed, until the advent of the triangulation-based map of the Palestine Exploration Fund in the 1880s, van de Velde’s map held as the region’s most reliable cartographic representation.

Yet a map necessarily reduces our experience of the world - in this case to a two-dimensional, black-and-white set of lines and shades. The result is a discrepancy: between the cartographer’s desire to capture the world in its entirety, and the limitied ability of his medium. If we have a closer look at the “Map of the Holy Land”, we find a plethora of details that van de Velde used to breach this gap. Perhaps the most charming of these is the inscription “beautiful plain” in a valley close to the river Jordan - apparently the cartographer found no other means to express his admiration for Palestine’s beautiful nature. Others include remarks like “rocky range” (terrain/ landscape), “wandering Arabs” (population), “reeds” (vegetation) or “quarantine” (information for travellers). The most frequent textual comment though is “not examined”. So at first glance, these extras seem to be slips of the cartographer’s tongue. Yet they really draw our attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the medium. Where pre-modern fancy filled gaps by “hic sunt leones”, the enlightened 19th-century cartographer admitted his lack of knowledge. Ultimately, these comments help us understand why for van de Velde, a map was not enough to express his views on the Holy Land. Very much like van de Velde’s “Map of the Holy Land”, maps never come as single, detached products. Thus apart from analysing the depiction of nature in the “Map of the Holy Land”, this talk will also argue in favor of reading maps together with the contexts they were published in."

The 32nd International Geographical Congress, Cologne 2012, Commission History of Geography, Session “Society and Environment: Conceptions and Representations of Nature(s) in the History of Geography”, August 26–30, 2012

Book Reviews by Jutta Faehndrich

ZfO / Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2023

Review of: Johannes Czakai: Nochems neue Namen. Die Juden Galiziens und der Bukowina und die Einf... more Review of: Johannes Czakai: Nochems neue Namen. Die Juden Galiziens und der Bukowina und die Einführung deutscher Vor- und Familiennamen 1772–1820. (Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Bd. 55.) Wallstein Verlag. Göttingen 2021. 560 S., Ill., Kt. ISBN 978-3-8353-5017-5. (€ 58,–.)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2013

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2016

Review of Bill Niven's study on the representation of flight and expulsion of Germans in East Ger... more Review of Bill Niven's study on the representation of flight and expulsion of Germans in East German prose works.

H-Soz-Kult, Nov 18, 2014

Book review

Als Künstler und Kartograph im Heiligen Land (1851/52): Die drei Palästina des C.W.M. van de Velde, Dec 21, 2020

Mapping the Holy Land: The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine; London: I.B. Tauris, 2017

Römische Historische Mitteilungen, 2019

Im Rahmen der 3. Gothaer Kartenwochen, November 20, 2012; Spiegelsaal, Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha (public evening lecture)

ZfO / Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2023

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2013

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2016

H-Soz-Kult, Nov 18, 2014

Book review

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Jul 14, 2009

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung (ZfO), Apr 3, 2010

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2003

This study takes a look at the "Heimatbücher" (heritage books) of German and ethnic German expell... more This study takes a look at the "Heimatbücher" (heritage books) of German and ethnic German expellees from East Central and Southeastern Europe published after 1945. Heimatbücher, a special class of publications, seek to portray the expellees' home towns and districts, thus preserving memories of their lives before the forced migration.

Aktives Museum: Mitgliederrundbrief Nr. 91, 2024

Exkurs über unbegleitete jüdische Kinder in Berlin mit Bezug zur Online-Ausstellung "Zwangsräume... more Exkurs über unbegleitete jüdische Kinder in Berlin mit Bezug zur Online-Ausstellung "Zwangsräume Berlin" https://zwangsraeume.berlin/de sowie zur Ausstellung im Museum FHXB Berlin zur "Gruppe Eva Mamlok- Widerstandsgeschichten"

Nemann Leipzig, 2022

Biographical research on the family of Wilhelm and Hanna Nemann on the occasion of Stolperstein p... more Biographical research on the family of Wilhelm and Hanna Nemann on the occasion of Stolperstein placements at their last residence, Leipzig, Christianstr. 15, Waldstraßenviertel.