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Observing Change in the Eastern Ottoman Empire: The Travel Diaries of the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht (1865–67)
Observing Change in the Eastern Ottoman Empire: The Travel Diaries of the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht (1865–67)
The German botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838–1903) travelled in 1865 and again in 1866–68 in the Eastern parts of the Ottoman Empire and in Iran. His main aim was to collect different types of plants for Edmond Boissier’s six-volume encyclopaedia ‘Flora Orientalis’ (published between 1867 and 1888). However, his travel diaries (almost a thousand pages long) […]