Last May this project was awarded with a grant by the Emilia-Guggenheim-Schnurr Foundation, associated to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Basel (NGiB), Switzerland.
The EGS Foundation has become one of the funders of the research, specifically the survey to be held in Basel. In this town we will develop a specific study named "From Basel to the Amazon: the scientific
trajectory of the Botanist Jacques Huber (1867-1914) and his connections to
scientists in Basel", whose goals are to
survey, identify, describe, and analyse the connections between Huber and
scientists/industrialists with scientific knowledge in Basel; and to highlight
their intellectual exchanges and contributions to the development of Huber’s
work.
We expect that this research will reveal pioneering international links
of natural scientists, who were connected with Basel, and were concerned since
very early with diverse issues related to the natural world, such as biodiversity,
ecological relations and phytochemistry, in Europe but also in regions as far as
the Amazon Basin.
We thank the Committee of the EGS Foundation for the support.
Jacques Huber (1867-1914) was a Swiss Botanist who worked at the Amazon from 1895 to 1914. He authored a major work on taxonomy, phytogeography, plant ecology and agronomy. This is the blog of a research on Huber's life and work funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and Capes Foundation.
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