The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Petra Lukeneder; Irene Liebhart; Franz Ottner; Anika Mikes; Petra Heinz; Radek Polách

doi:10.1098/rsnr.2022.0051

The historical power of the natural science collection of Dominik Bilimek at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)

Petra Lukeneder (Korresp. Autor*in)
, Irene Liebhart
, Franz Ottner
, Anika Mikes
, Petra Heinz
, Radek Polách

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Abstract

The scientific world of the nineteenth century was shaped by far-reaching discoveries,expeditions, travel and collection activities as well as by the development of extensive naturalscientific social networking. During the 1840s, Dominik Bilimek (1813–1884) arose as a keypersonality in European natural sciences, with a significant impact on the biological,geoscientific and even archaeological communities. The Bilimek collection at the Universityof Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna encompasses thousands of specimens andprovides a large number of original labels with date, locality and companions in the field.This set of collection labels was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively with respect to itshistorical value to increase our knowledge about the explorer’s life and his social network.The study also focuses on Bilimek’s so far unknown social links, which were recovered bythe processing of the collection, probably resulting in the use of these data for a socialnetwork analysis of a nineteenth-century scientific network.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	403-430
Seitenumfang	28
Fachzeitschrift	Notes & records : the Royal Society journal of the history of science
Jahrgang	78
Ausgabenummer	3
Frühes Online-Datum	12 Apr. 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2022.0051
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - 7 Aug. 2024

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We thank Father Meinrad Tomann (M\u00F6nchhof) and Father Alkuin Schachenmayr (Heiligenkreuz) for supporting this work with historical material from the archive; Editha Schubert (M\u00FCncheberg) for providing letters from the Kraatz heritage; Rene Schober (Vienna) for providing a high-resolution image of the Orchis spitzelii drawing; and Gabriela Gelovizza (Trieste) for sending a high resolution scan of a Bilimek photograph. Special thanks to ANSP Archives Collection 457, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (USA); Kelsey Manahan-Phelan and Dan Thomas (both ANSP Archives) for dedicated friendly contact and quick availability of a previously unknown Bilimek image; Austrian State Archives for providing scans of Bilimek\u2019s letters to Maximilian; Enrico Mazzoli (Trieste), Ondina Ninino (Trieste) and Wolfgang Ladenbauer (Puchberg am Schneeberg, Lower Austria) for information on Eduard Orel in Miramare; Nicola Bressi (Trieste) for access to the Novara collection; Brigitta Mader (Vienna) for providing a publication on Bilimek in Carnuntum; Isabel Bueno Bravo (Madrid) for dedicated support; Alexander Lukeneder (Vienna) for imaging fossils and collection labels; Jan Steger (Vienna) for gastropod determination; Henrik Hofer (Berlin) for sending the Zipser letter; Anita Eschner (Vienna) for information on Novara specimens at the NHMW; Bettina Bosin (Vienna) for being helpful regarding fossils from the gravel pits at the Belvedere; and Diego Antonio Garcia-Ramos (Vienna) for determination of brachiopods from the Bilimek collection. We thank the editor of Notes and Records, Tim Holt, for constructive comments. The manuscript greatly benefited from the suggestions of two anonymous reviewers. Many thanks to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (\u00D6AW) for funding this project. This work is dedicated to our friends from Nov\u00FD Ji\u010D\u00EDn and Kun\u00EDn (both Czech Republic) for their hospitality and historical guidance.

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