Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies

Changsha, China /Berlin, Germany

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies

Changsha, China / Berlin, Germany

Mission Statement

HCTS has been created to introduce and promote the study on the life and works of Alexander von Humboldt.

Welcome Speech

Professor Dr. Ottmar Ette, Director of the HCTS

Launching Ceremony

The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies was launched.


Latest News

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


First Chinese Translation of Alexander von Humboldt's "Cosmos" Published

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...

German Leading Media Reports on Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies

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...

Upcoming Event: Alexander von Humboldt: Ways of/in European Modernity

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"


Members

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette

Director

Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Director of the Humboldt Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr. Ren Haiyan

Deputy Director

Associate Professor at the English Department of Hunan Normal University, Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


About Humboldt

Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies


About Alexander von Humboldt

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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