Article ID: CBB677923571

Communicating Geology between Bureaucracy, public, society and layman: private conversation and productivity in the Metropolis Vienna (2021)

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Earth sciences were particularly successful both locally and internationally in nineteenth-century Vienna and the Habsburg Empire in general, which can be attributed to new institutions: the association Friends of the Natural Sciences (since 1845) and the Imperial Geological Survey that was founded in Vienna in 1849. Their esteemed reputation was based on the extraordinarily high quality of their output, resulting from the geological examination of the terrain of the entire monarchy. However, historical scholarship has so far ignored that the extremely effective communication structure also played a significant role in this success story. There was indeed a group of dominant researchers who cooperated and coordinated the field of earth science, making geology visible among science in new ways. This paper focuses on a new perspective on communication on several levels, in particular highlighting the personal contact through channels of different institutions, political elites, administrational networks, society and culture in the metropolis Vienna.

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Authors & Contributors
Veres, Madalina Valeria
Klemun, Marianne
Mathias Harzhauser
Christa Riedl-Dorn
Franz Brandstätter
Felten, Sebastian
Concepts
Geology
Science and government
Bureaucracy
Cartography
Science and society
Popularization
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
16th century
Early modern
Enlightenment
Places
Vienna (Austria)
Austria
Adriatic sea
Saxony
Lisbon (Portugal)
Florence (Italy)
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Bergakademie Freiberg
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