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Expert Cultures at Sea and on Land
Transformations in Nautical Education and Navigational Practice in Germany in the 19th Century

The project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, aims to contribute to the development of specific knowledge cultures using the example of nautical education. The time frame under consideration essentially covers the 19th century; in regional terms, the focus will be on the German coastal territories (or the German Reich from 1871 onwards).
Basic assumption is the presence of two expert cultures in which nautical knowledge is generated, validated and organised: Practitioners and nautical instructors ashore. The formative structures, social status of the actors and epistemic practices will be explored and the introduction of new educational content in the civil and military maritime sector will be studied. A further aim of the project is to define more precisely the relationship between theory and practice in navigation, as well as to investigate the processes of academisation and scientificalisation of nautical instruction. Here research approaches to the development and reorientation of engineering education and technical education in the second half of the 19th century will be adopted.
 

https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/seefahrer01?language=en

Günther Oestmann