HCTS has been created to introduce and promote the study on the life and works of Alexander von Humboldt.
Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the HCTS
The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.
In September 2023, the Chinese translation of Alexander von Humboldt's work Cosmos, translated by our center member Ms. Gao Hong and published by Peking University Press, marked a significant milestone in the fields of literature and science. This renowned work by the explorer and naturalist challenged traditional disciplinary boundaries by merging knowledge from different domains into a compre...
On September 25th, the official website of Germany's Tagesspiegel reported on Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies under the title "Bridge Builder Humboldt: Encounters with the Celestial Empire." The article's introduction states, "Romance linguist Ottmar Ette established a research center in Changsha and asked: Could China produce its own Alexander von Humboldt?"This report not only r...
On October 11, 2023, the first "Humboldt Day" in China is set to commence, organized by the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, Hunan Normal University. This event will be under the theme of "Alexander von Humboldt: Ways of/in European Modernity"
On September 14th 1769, exactly 251 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin, under the sign of a comet, as he proudly remarked. He became one of the most famous scholars and scientistsof his time on a world-wide scale and is celebrated today both in Europe and the Americas. In China, it is high time to discover a naturalist, writer and traveller who, crossing the Russian Empire, no...
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