[Sci-tech-public] Modern Times, Rural Places Seminar 2-18-2005

[Margo Collett]

Modern Times, Rural Places:

Seminar Series at MIT



Lynn Nyhart

Associate Professor of History of Science

  University of Wisconsin



Caring for Nature:  Practical Zoology and Nature Protection in 
Nineteenth-Century Germany



In the German-speaking lands of the 1860s and 1870s, a populist form of 
natural history arose that focused on living animals.  Closely connected to 
the zoo movement, devotees of this form of zoology objected to the museum 
study of dead animals for classification, and sought instead to understand 
animals as living individuals. In this paper, I examine the practical and 
moral issues raised among those who cared for animals, concentrating 
especially on the work of Phillip Leopold Martin, the community's leading 
spokesman.  I argue that the work of Martin and others in this community 
reveals a hitherto-unseen connection between caring for individual captive 
animals and nature protection, which in turn represents a particular 
response to late nineteenth-century modernity.



Friday, February 18, 2005

2:30 to 4:30 pm

MIT, Building E51 Room 095



Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, 
and Society
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