Oliver Hochadel
Biographic Data
| ID | 604408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Hochadel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Hochadel |
| SIGNATURE | HOCHADEL O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4983-1118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caring for your creatures
In 1892, Ram Brahma Sanyal (1850–1908), superintendent of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens (CZG), published A Handbook on the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal , securing him international renown. This article will ask how a ‘native of India’, subjected to the racial hierarchies of the British Empire, became a crucial reference in the global debate on zoo animal husbandry. How did a seemingly peripheral zoo such as the CZG become …
Introduction New Histories of Acclimatization. The Iberian World and Beyond
Centre of Acclimatisation
Francesc Darder (1851–1918) wanted to turn the Barcelona Zoo, founded in 1892, into an institution dedicated to the acclimatisation of useful animals. Backed by the City Council, Darder launched several institutions and initiatives both inside and outside the zoo: animal auctions, poultry breeding, exhibitions, a zootechnical museum, and fish farming. With the help of modern technologies, the economic benefits of both “exotic” and domestic animal…
Avi
This article reconstructs the double biography of Avi, an Asian elephant, born around 1875 and brought to Europe probably in 1883. “Double” because it will contrast the “medialized” Avi, the star animal of the Barcelona Zoo, founded in 1892 with the corporeal elephant. Avi appeared in numerous newspaper articles, cartoons, drawings, photographs and around seventy postcards showing the elephant and his interactions with the zoo visitors. A large-f…
A global player from the South
Under the directorship of Clemente Onelli (1904-1924), the Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires became a major public attraction and gained an international reputation for its innovations in animal keeping and as a supplier of Latin American fauna. It was a hybrid institution that combined the tasks of public instruction, zoological research, and acclimatization of useful animals, and also served as a symbol of national pride. Despite its seemingly p…
Euler, Leonhard
Der 1768 erschienene Band gehört zu jenen in der Aufklärung zahlreichen populärwissenschaftlichen Werken, die, oft in Form von Briefen oder Dialogen, gezielt breitere Schichten ansprechen, die Naturkunde vom Geruch des Abseitigen und Unverständlichen befreien und sie so ‚salonfähig‘ machen wollten. Der erste Bestseller dieses Genres sind Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelles Gespräche über die Vielzahl der Welten (1686). Kaum einer der Autoren hat abe…
Sammelbesprechung
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Spain's magic mountain
The Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain is ranked among the most important excavation sites in human origins research worldwide. The project boasts not only spectacular hominid fossils, among them the ‘oldest European’, but also a fully fledged ‘popularization industry’. This article interprets this multimedia industry as a generator of different narratives about the researchers as well as about the prehistoric hominids of Atapuerca. It focuses…
"How to Write an Urban History of STM on the "Periphery
Within the STEP research agenda there has never been an explicit focus on the city as a central place for knowledge production. Scholars of the urban history of science tend to concentrate on the metropolis and have not looked in any systematic way at the scientific culture in "peripheral" urban contexts. To fill this gap, this essay proposes to focus on: (1) the role of science, technology and medicine in everyday life and the experiences of the…
The Fossils of A tapuerca
Numerous studies have shown how closely nation‐building accompanies research into human prehistory. While these studies primarily focus on the period before 1945, the example of the S panish site A tapuerca demonstrates that the strong link between hominid fossils and national identity still exists in the twenty‐first century. The article argues that there are different ways of appropriating prehistoric human remains. One may distinguish the conc…
Deborah R. Coen
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter , Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2013. 348 S., geb., $ 35,00. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐11181‐0
The multiple Eudald Carbonell
1.-Introduction -the icon of Atapuerca. 2.-The young archaeologist. 3.-The exhibition on Catalonian prehistory in 1976. 4.-Fighter against the establishment. 5.-Hunter of the first European. 6.-An advocate for Spanish science. 7.-Fighter against scientific colonialism. 8.-Communist and agent of reflection. 9.-The media scientist. 10.-Catalanist and interdependentist. 11.-Conclusion: from outsider to celebrity scientist
Paleoanthropology in the periphery
A boom of bones and books
Atapuerca is an important prehistoric site in northern Spain that yielded the oldest hominid fossils in Europe in 1994. Since 1998 the three co-directors of the research team have in sum (co-)authored more than twenty-five popular science books, a boom without precedent in human-origins research. This paper will put forward three hypotheses. First, that these books were instrumental in achieving public recognition and financial support for the re…
Watching Exotic Animals Next Door
ArgumentThe nineteenth century witnessed the advent of the modern zoo. Nearly everyone who came to watch the exotic animals was a "lay person" in the sense that virtually none had formal training in zoology. This paper provides a typology of these observers: the zoo directors, assistants, keepers, animal painters, and the "common" visitor. What did they observe and what were their motivations? Did they pursue a certain agenda? What kind of knowle…
Aufklärung durch Täuschung, Die Natürliche Magie im 18.?Jahrhundert
Mechanical speaking figures are very popular in the 18th century. Purportedly they are not only able to answer questions but also to divine. The enlightened philosophers are alarmed in the face of apparent fraud fostering superstition. The most successful weapon against the ‘charlatans’ seems to be the public imitation of their tricks. This leads to a ‘division of labour’ between popularisers of science, instrument‐makers and even some showmen, a…
Watching Exotic Animals Next Door
ArgumentThe nineteenth century witnessed the advent of the modern zoo. Nearly everyone who came to watch the exotic animals was a "lay person" in the sense that virtually none had formal training in zoology. This paper provides a typology of these observers: the zoo directors, assistants, keepers, animal painters, and the "common" visitor. What did they observe and what were their motivations? Did they pursue a certain agenda? What kind of knowle…
A boom of bones and books
Atapuerca is an important prehistoric site in northern Spain that yielded the oldest hominid fossils in Europe in 1994. Since 1998 the three co-directors of the research team have in sum (co-)authored more than twenty-five popular science books, a boom without precedent in human-origins research. This paper will put forward three hypotheses. First, that these books were instrumental in achieving public recognition and financial support for the re…
A global player from the South
Under the directorship of Clemente Onelli (1904-1924), the Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires became a major public attraction and gained an international reputation for its innovations in animal keeping and as a supplier of Latin American fauna. It was a hybrid institution that combined the tasks of public instruction, zoological research, and acclimatization of useful animals, and also served as a symbol of national pride. Despite its seemingly p…
"How to Write an Urban History of STM on the "Periphery
Within the STEP research agenda there has never been an explicit focus on the city as a central place for knowledge production. Scholars of the urban history of science tend to concentrate on the metropolis and have not looked in any systematic way at the scientific culture in "peripheral" urban contexts. To fill this gap, this essay proposes to focus on: (1) the role of science, technology and medicine in everyday life and the experiences of the…
The Fossils of A tapuerca
Numerous studies have shown how closely nation‐building accompanies research into human prehistory. While these studies primarily focus on the period before 1945, the example of the S panish site A tapuerca demonstrates that the strong link between hominid fossils and national identity still exists in the twenty‐first century. The article argues that there are different ways of appropriating prehistoric human remains. One may distinguish the conc…
The multiple Eudald Carbonell
1.-Introduction -the icon of Atapuerca. 2.-The young archaeologist. 3.-The exhibition on Catalonian prehistory in 1976. 4.-Fighter against the establishment. 5.-Hunter of the first European. 6.-An advocate for Spanish science. 7.-Fighter against scientific colonialism. 8.-Communist and agent of reflection. 9.-The media scientist. 10.-Catalanist and interdependentist. 11.-Conclusion: from outsider to celebrity scientist
Aufklärung durch Täuschung, Die Natürliche Magie im 18.?Jahrhundert
Mechanical speaking figures are very popular in the 18th century. Purportedly they are not only able to answer questions but also to divine. The enlightened philosophers are alarmed in the face of apparent fraud fostering superstition. The most successful weapon against the ‘charlatans’ seems to be the public imitation of their tricks. This leads to a ‘division of labour’ between popularisers of science, instrument‐makers and even some showmen, a…
Watching Exotic Animals Next Door
ArgumentThe nineteenth century witnessed the advent of the modern zoo. Nearly everyone who came to watch the exotic animals was a "lay person" in the sense that virtually none had formal training in zoology. This paper provides a typology of these observers: the zoo directors, assistants, keepers, animal painters, and the "common" visitor. What did they observe and what were their motivations? Did they pursue a certain agenda? What kind of knowle…
A boom of bones and books
Atapuerca is an important prehistoric site in northern Spain that yielded the oldest hominid fossils in Europe in 1994. Since 1998 the three co-directors of the research team have in sum (co-)authored more than twenty-five popular science books, a boom without precedent in human-origins research. This paper will put forward three hypotheses. First, that these books were instrumental in achieving public recognition and financial support for the re…
The multiple Eudald Carbonell
1.-Introduction -the icon of Atapuerca. 2.-The young archaeologist. 3.-The exhibition on Catalonian prehistory in 1976. 4.-Fighter against the establishment. 5.-Hunter of the first European. 6.-An advocate for Spanish science. 7.-Fighter against scientific colonialism. 8.-Communist and agent of reflection. 9.-The media scientist. 10.-Catalanist and interdependentist. 11.-Conclusion: from outsider to celebrity scientist
Paleoanthropology in the periphery
Deborah R. Coen
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter , Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press 2013. 348 S., geb., $ 35,00. ISBN 978‐0‐226‐11181‐0
The Fossils of A tapuerca
Numerous studies have shown how closely nation‐building accompanies research into human prehistory. While these studies primarily focus on the period before 1945, the example of the S panish site A tapuerca demonstrates that the strong link between hominid fossils and national identity still exists in the twenty‐first century. The article argues that there are different ways of appropriating prehistoric human remains. One may distinguish the conc…
Spain's magic mountain
The Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain is ranked among the most important excavation sites in human origins research worldwide. The project boasts not only spectacular hominid fossils, among them the ‘oldest European’, but also a fully fledged ‘popularization industry’. This article interprets this multimedia industry as a generator of different narratives about the researchers as well as about the prehistoric hominids of Atapuerca. It focuses…
"How to Write an Urban History of STM on the "Periphery
Within the STEP research agenda there has never been an explicit focus on the city as a central place for knowledge production. Scholars of the urban history of science tend to concentrate on the metropolis and have not looked in any systematic way at the scientific culture in "peripheral" urban contexts. To fill this gap, this essay proposes to focus on: (1) the role of science, technology and medicine in everyday life and the experiences of the…
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Euler, Leonhard
Der 1768 erschienene Band gehört zu jenen in der Aufklärung zahlreichen populärwissenschaftlichen Werken, die, oft in Form von Briefen oder Dialogen, gezielt breitere Schichten ansprechen, die Naturkunde vom Geruch des Abseitigen und Unverständlichen befreien und sie so ‚salonfähig‘ machen wollten. Der erste Bestseller dieses Genres sind Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelles Gespräche über die Vielzahl der Welten (1686). Kaum einer der Autoren hat abe…
Sammelbesprechung
A global player from the South
Under the directorship of Clemente Onelli (1904-1924), the Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires became a major public attraction and gained an international reputation for its innovations in animal keeping and as a supplier of Latin American fauna. It was a hybrid institution that combined the tasks of public instruction, zoological research, and acclimatization of useful animals, and also served as a symbol of national pride. Despite its seemingly p…
Avi
This article reconstructs the double biography of Avi, an Asian elephant, born around 1875 and brought to Europe probably in 1883. “Double” because it will contrast the “medialized” Avi, the star animal of the Barcelona Zoo, founded in 1892 with the corporeal elephant. Avi appeared in numerous newspaper articles, cartoons, drawings, photographs and around seventy postcards showing the elephant and his interactions with the zoo visitors. A large-f…
Caring for your creatures
In 1892, Ram Brahma Sanyal (1850–1908), superintendent of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens (CZG), published A Handbook on the Management of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal , securing him international renown. This article will ask how a ‘native of India’, subjected to the racial hierarchies of the British Empire, became a crucial reference in the global debate on zoo animal husbandry. How did a seemingly peripheral zoo such as the CZG become …
Introduction New Histories of Acclimatization. The Iberian World and Beyond
Centre of Acclimatisation
Francesc Darder (1851–1918) wanted to turn the Barcelona Zoo, founded in 1892, into an institution dedicated to the acclimatisation of useful animals. Backed by the City Council, Darder launched several institutions and initiatives both inside and outside the zoo: animal auctions, poultry breeding, exhibitions, a zootechnical museum, and fish farming. With the help of modern technologies, the economic benefits of both “exotic” and domestic animal…
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