Wokół kolekcji przyrodniczych w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów. Cz. I: Christoph i Johann Christoph Gottwaldowie oraz ich gdańskie muzeum

Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

Wokół kolekcji przyrodniczych w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów. Cz. I: Christoph i Johann Christoph Gottwaldowie oraz ich gdańskie muzeum

Publication date: 20.11.2018

Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, 2018, Issue 2Volume 63, Issue , pp. 51 - 97

https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.18.010.9463

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Wokół kolekcji przyrodniczych w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów. Cz. I: Christoph i Johann Christoph Gottwaldowie oraz ich gdańskie muzeum

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In the second part of the 17th century and the first part of the 18th, Gdańsk was at the centre among places on the map of collectors in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially regarding to natural history. It was the place of activities of Naturalien-Cabinets of such natural scientists as Christoph and Johann Christoph Gottwalds, Jacob and Johann Philipp Breynes, Jacob Theodor Klein, or Daniel Gralath, where rare objects belonging to three regni naturali from all parts of the globe were presented. One od the oldest Gdańsk collections was the Musaeum Gottwladianum. Its heiers sold part of its items to Petersburg Kunstkammera of tsar Peter I. The article introduces profiles of the creators of the mentioned collection – Ch. and J. Ch. Gottwalds and the most important sources presenting its character and scope. Also, selected elements of collections of interest were discussed.

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Christoph(orus) Gottwald (1636–1700), Johann Christoph Gottwald (1670–1713), Johann Philipp Breyne (1680–1764), Musaeum Gottwaldianum, kolekcje przyrodnicze – Prusy Królewskie, przyrodoznawstwo – Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów, historia medycyny – Gdańsk – XVIII w., XVIII w.

Christoph(orus) Gottwald (1636-1700), Johann Christoph Gottwald (1670-1713), Musaeum Gottwaldianum, history of natural collections - Royal Prussia - 17th, 18th centuries, history of natural history - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - history of medicine – Gdańsk 17th, 18th centuries

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Information: Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology, 2018, Issue 2Volume 63, Issue , pp. 51 - 97

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/0023589XKHNT.18.010.9463

Article type: Original article

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Wokół kolekcji przyrodniczych w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów. Cz. I: Christoph i Johann Christoph Gottwaldowie oraz ich gdańskie muzeum

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On the natural collections in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Part I: Christoph and Johann Christoph Gottwalds and their museum in Gdańsk

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Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2068-7957

Katedra i Zakład Historii i Filozofii Nauk Medycznych, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu.

Published at: 20.11.2018

Article status: Open

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