GRP 2006
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"Georg Forster in Mainz: Georg Forster Colloquium on June 23/24, 2006 From 1788 to March 1793, Forster developed a tremendous literary productivity in Mainz, of which the Views of the Lower Rhine is only the best known work. Others, however, have often remained in the shadows, including his memoirs from 1790, essays and his scientific writings and experiments, which remained unpublished in Forster's time. However, this production also includes countless reviews that have never been systematically examined, as well as his well-known "translation workshop", which has also not been sufficiently scrutinized. The Forsters in Mainz were an intellectual center to which not only other people in the circle belonged, but which was also deliberately visited by many, sometimes hardly less illustrious contemporaries from Germany and Europe in order to exchange ideas with Forster: a communication center avant la lettre, of which we still know far too little about how it really worked. In addition to all this, it is all too easy to forget that Forster was a librarian and had to look after the university library, so he was at the center of book distribution and procurement, about which our knowledge is little to zero. With the arrival of the revolution, Forster was actively involved in the procurement and distribution of political news through his own newspaper. This area, too, has so far received far too little attention. How did this whole media center, in which Forster played such a central role, function? Enough questions about the structures of knowledge acquisition and dissemination under changing political conditions and Forster's role in them and a direct link to and continuation of the successful 2005 colloquium on Georg Forster in the intellectual networks of his time. ProgramFriday, June 23, 2006
Saturday, 24.6.2006
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