1st Edition
Nathaniel Wallich Global Botany in Nineteenth Century India
By Martin Krieger
Copyright 2023
312 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In March 1807, Nathaniel Wallich, a young Danish surgeon left his home in Copenhagen towards India. During the troubles of the Napoleonic Wars, it was not possible to foresee, that he was to emerge as one of the most prominent nineteenth century botanists.
Wallich spent most of his adulthood in India and, as the long-time superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, gained extensive expertise... Read more
Biography
Martin Krieger serves as a professor for Northern European History at the University of Kiel, Germany. His major fields of research are intellectual and cultural history and the history of science. He has extensively published on the history of the Baltic Sea region, on global intellectual networks and global consumer goods, such as on tea and coffee. He has published European Cemeteries in South India: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Manohar 2013).
