The 'expedition in the beer house'. A different look at the African explorers of the 19th century

This evening, the historian and German Studies scholar Albert Feierabend will be our guest. His lecture is entitled "The 'Expedition in the Bierhaus'. A different view of 19th century African explorers" and uses the example of the controversial naturalist, botanist and African traveller Hermann Steudner (1832–1863) to develop new, more realistic perspectives on the history of expeditions and the European discovery of Africa.

Feierabend is currently doing his doctorate as a scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation in the project "Geography and Politics between North-East Africa and Europe" at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection at the University of Erfurt.

Following his lecture, the Friends of the Gotha Research Library invite you to a small reception.

picture credits: August Petermann: Route suggestions for the expedition to Inner Africa, Gotha 1860 (Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt / Gotha Perthes Collection)