Article ID: CBB421993758

Clementine Helm Beyrich (1825–1896), the unusual case of a woman popularizer of the geosciences during the nineteenth century in Central Europe (2021)

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During the nineteenth century the role of women was very much restricted. In the geosciences, women were not able to study and thus even less able to publish. Here the work of one female writer is presented who, due to her upbringing in an intellectual family with close connections to the most celebrated scientists in Prussia/Germany, such as Alexander von Humboldt, the mineralogist Christian Samuel Weiss, Ernst Haeckel and many others, was aware of scientific progress and the discussions of the times. Based on her unusual education by teachers and scientists and her intellectual abilities, and knowledge acquired through marriage to a well-established geoscientist, she wrote popular juvenile literature that included geological and palaeontological content. This scientific content was typically woven into fairy tales or novels for adolescent girls and served as a way to spread geoscientific knowledge to a large audience.

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Authors & Contributors
Rosenberg, Gary D.
Mathias Harzhauser
Richard K. Olsson
Erika Gorder
A.J. Blandford
Patricia Coorough Burke
Concepts
Geology
Earth sciences
Popularization
Science and literature
Paleontology
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Italy
Germany
Canada
Institutions
Rutgers University
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