Julia Heideklang
Scientific Researcher
Curriculum Vitae
seit 2022
Scientific Researcher at Philologisches Seminar, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
DFG project of Prof. Anja Wolkenhauer „Versio latina: Actors, Functions and Objectives of Early Modern Translations into Latin“
2017-2022
PhD Project (Classics)
„Botanics in the Making: Communication and Construction of the Botanical Science in 16th-century Europe“, Scientific Researcher and PhD candidate (Classics) at DFG Graduate School 2190 „Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms“, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2012-2017
Master of Arts Classics & Master of Education Latin/Biology
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2013-2016
Student Assistant, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2013-2016 CRC 644 „Transformations of Antiquity“, Project B7 „Translation of Antiquity“; 2015-2016 Department of Classics; 2014-2015 Q-Tutorium (Bologna-Lab): „Sex Education in Interdisciplinary Contexts—Opportunities and Limitations of a Pedagogical Task“
2009-2012
Bachelor of Arts Latin/Biology
2009
Graduation Diploma
Heinrich-Schliemann-Oberschule, Berlin
1990
born in Oranienburg
Research
Current Research Project
Versio latina: Actors, Functions and Objectives of Early Modern Translations into Latin
In context of the Priority Programme 2130 „Early Modern Translation Cultures (1450—1800)“ (https://www.spp2130.de) and Prof. Anja Wolkenhauer’s research project Versio latina the actors, functions and objectives of translations into the Latin language will be investigated: For this purpose, the twelve case studies include a broader array of source languages and genres from 1500 to 1800, such as Commynes’ Memoires, Brant’s Narrenschiff, Camoe’s Os Lusíadas and Campanella’s La Città del Sole. Hereby, the different editions and translations will be collected and compiled into a data base. Taking into consideration their paratextual apparatuses, correspondence and documents related to the translation processes the cultural functions and economic objectives as well as the particulars of early modern translations into Neo-Latin will be contextualized and analyzed. Ultimately, this project aims to bring the ‘forgotten Latinitas’ back into focus, especially regarding its central importance for literature and book trade.
Dissertation Project
Botanics in the Making: Communication and Construction of the Botanical Science in 16th-century Europe
Emerging in early modern Europe, the forms, practices and affiliations of the botanical science had still to be negotiated. These debates took place particularly in what is generally seen as liminal part of the voluminous botanical print works—in their paratexts. Therefore, I bring the title pages, dedicatory letters, prefaces and dedicatory poems of a selected corpus into focus, starting with the first botanical print, the Herbarius Latinus (1484).
Contextualizing these works and analyzing them together with preserved traces of reading and usage found in remaining copies, makes it evident, that these sets of heterogenous small forms function as epistemic catalysts and platforms for debate and communication, fostering the construction of the botanical science and its community. Hereby, they simultaneously reflect on the practices of collecting, selecting and arranging botanical knowledge within the main texts, while being subjected to limitations of selection and reduction processes themselves, which are then again sometimes thwarted by the processes of accumulation. Link
Other Research Projects
Constructing History and Knowledge through Small Forms: Mapping Paratextual Strategies of 16th- and 17th-century Herbals
LBI Fellowship (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut for Neo-Latin Studies) 01.08.—15.10.2022 Link
Leaves in Florentine Libraries
Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship 2022
Research Fields
Paratexts in Early Modern Prints,
Neo-Latin Literature, Translations into Neo-Latin
History of Botany, Neo-Latin Scientific Texts
Publications
Publications
2022
“Paratextual Debates in De plantis (1583): On the Best Form of Botanical Prose, Garden and Things, and the Author-Figure of Cesalpino”, in: Andrea Cesalpino: An Aristotelian Natural Philosopher in the Renaissance, ed. by Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, London et al.: Bloomsbury (in Vorb.).
2022
„Leaf: Preserving Knowledge, Constructing Histories“, in: Natural Things, Ecologies of Knowledge in the Early Modern World, ed. by Mackenzie Cooley, Anna Toledano and Dyugu Yıldırım, (in Vorb.).
2022
„Hos Centones: Brunfelsʼ Herbarum vivae eicones (1530) and Contrafayt Krëutterbuch (1532)“, in: Cento-texts in the Making, Aesthetics and Poetics from Homer to Zong!, (= Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, Bd. 109) hg. von Manuel Baumbach, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (im Druck).
2021
together with Hans-Joachim Pflüger and Helmut Kettenmann. De fabrica systematis nervosi evertebratorum. Die kommentierte Dissertation von / commented Thesis by Hermann Helmholtz. Darmstadt: WBG Academic.
2019
together with Urte Stobbe (Hrsg.). Kleine Formen für den Unterricht. (= Themenorientierte Literaturdidaktik, Bd. 2), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress.
2019
„Conrad Gesners Historia animalium: Großes Werk und kleine Form im fächerübergreifenden Unterricht“, in: Kleine Formen für den Unterricht. (= Themenorientierte Literaturdidaktik, Bd. 2), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, 197–223.
Talks
Talks
07/02/2022
„In the Arena of Science: Mattioli against his Critics”, Innsbruck
Saevia Scientia: Denigration and Defamation in Early Modern Science (07/01-02/22) at Ludwig Boltzmann Institut for Neo-Latin Studies, NOSCEMUS, Universität Innsbruck
02/26/2022
„Paratextual Debates in De plantis (1583): On the Best Form of Botanical Prose, Garden and Things, and the Author-Figure of Cesalpino” (virtually)
Andrea Cesalpino: An Aristotelian Natural Philosopher in the Renaissance (towards the publication of the volume) (02/25-26/22), Ca’Foscari University of Venice& Indiana University Bloomington
09/30/2021
„Helmholtz’ Doktorarbeit und der Blick durch das Mikroskop“, Potsdam
Helmholtz-Feierstunde at Helmholtz-Gymnasium Potsdam, organized in collaboration with ProWissen Potsdam e.V. and Universität Potsdam
09/15/2021
„Sehen, Beobachten, Durchwandern: Helmholtz’ Sprache des Mikroskopierens“, Berlin
Helmholtz-Virchow-Dinner, Science Dinner at the Max-Delbrück-Center, Berlin
05/12/2021
„Botanics in the Making: Writing and Reading 16th-century Herbals” (vitually)
Guest talk at Ludwig Boltzmann Institut for Neo-Latin Studies, NOSCEMUS, Innsbruck
13/11/2020
„Literature and Practices of Collection: Brunfelsʼ Herbarum vivae eicones (1530) and Contrafayt Krëutterbuch (1532)“ (virtually)
Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Technique of Cento Texts, Universität Bochum
24/07/2019
„Traces of the Plant World: How to Read Botanical Prose“ Utrecht
HSS Annual Meeting (07/23-27/19), University of Utrecht
04/09/2019
„Writing Histories of (Medico-)Botanical Knowledge in 16th Century Europe: Mapping Paratextual Strategies“ Hamilton-College (NY, USA)
Natural Things Inaugural Conference „Collection & the History of Science in the Age of Global Empires“ (04/07-09/19), Hamilton College
07/06/2018
„Conrad Gesners Historia animalium: Großes Werk und kleine Formen im fächerübergreifenden Unterricht“, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Workshop „Kleine Formen für den Unterricht – Unterricht in kleinen Formen“ (Small Forms for School Education - Education through Small Forms) (07/04-06/2018) organized together with Sandra Dobritz
04/19/2018
„Botany Almost Lost – An Italian Paratextual Discourse on the Rescue and Meaning of Botanical Knowledge“, University of Kentucky, Lexington (KY, USA)
The Languages, Literatures and Culteres Conference (04/18-21/2018)
04/04/2018
„Der Humanist Conrad Gesner und seine Historia animalium im Latein- und Biologieunterricht“, Saarbrücken
together with Kristina Tyborski, Svenja Holper, Christin Hartwig und Sandra Berges; National Congress of Classics (Deutscher Altphilologenverband) „Polis Europa“ (04/02-07/2018)
Workshops, Conferences, Varia
Workshops, Conferences, Varia
08/17/2018
„Conrad Gesner und seine Historia animalium“ – Another Project Day at the Natural History Museum, Berlin
Second implementation and trial run for the delevoped learning materials in 08/2018 in the context of a Summer School of the Humboldt-Schülergesellschaft under the overarching theme of “Antiquity and the Sciences” with a smaller number of pupils (Link)
07/04-06/2018
together with Sandra Dobritz: interdisciplinary workshop „Small Forms for School Education—Education through Small Forms“, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
02/22/2018
„Conrad Gesner und seine Historia animalium“ – A Project Day at the Natural History Museum, Berlin
Project day 8.30 a.m. to 03.30 p.m. implementing an interdisciplinary learning material involving the exhibitions of the Berlin Natural History Museum, in collaboration with Stefan Kipf, Kristina Tyborski, Svenja Holper, Christin Hartwig und Sandra Berges and Astrid Faber. After refining and optimizing the learning materials through discussions with teachers from three quite heterogenous schools in Berlin, we conducted two project days, in 02/2018 with a mixed group of those schools (all in all 41 pupils). This allowed us a first positive evaluation of the learning materials developed for school teaching.