Participant Info
- First Name
- Dorit
- Last Name
- Brixius
- Country
- Germany
- State
- dorit.brixius@tu-dresden.de
- Affiliation
- Dresden University of Technology
- Website URL
- https://tu-dresden.de/mn/biologie/jprof-geschichte-der-botanik-und-des-gartenbaus/die-professur/inhaber-in
- Keywords
- History of science, history of botanical gardens, global history of knowledge, women in the history of science, history of Mauritius, islands as localities of historical knowledge production, gender, history of pre-modern medicine, pre-modern cosmetics, pre-modern animal healing
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Dorit Brixius is an historian of science with a main focus on the history of botany. Since 2024, she has been professor of history of botany and horticulture at Dresden University of Technology, bridging the faculty of biology and the humanities. Using plants as an inroad to explore practices of marginalised historical actors, she conducts research on a wide range of topics ranging from plants on eighteenth-century Mauritius to seventeenth-century medical practice, animal healing and cosmetics. Currently, she has two new research projects, one on Gertrud Tobler-Wolff’s biological research and one on the history of the Dresden Botanical Garden in the nineteenth century.
- Recent Publications
Creolised Science: Knowledge in the eighteenth-century Indo-Pacific, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
‘Die Pariser Karriere des Arztes Noël Vallant zwischen Vertrauensbildung und ärztlicher Praxis im Grand Siècle’, in: Innsbrucker Historische Studien 33 (2021), 189–209.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa, France, Germany, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Medicine, Science, Slavery, Women
