Franc Hladnik and Nicolaus Thomas Host / Franc Hladnik in Nicolaus Thomas Host The Collaboration of Franc Hladnik and Nicolaus Thomas Host in the Enlightenment Spirit in Ljubljana and Vienna / Sodelovanje Franca Hladnika in Nicolausa Thomasa Hosta v Duhu Razsvetljenstva v Ljubljani in Dunaju

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Language: Bilingual in English and Slovenian

This book contains the first translation of botanist Nikolaus Thomas Host's letters to botanist Franc Hladnik into Slovenian and English, thus making a significant contribution to the depiction of the Enlightenment period and the connection between Ljubljana, Klagenfurt, and Vienna. All original letters are also reprinted, so that they can also be read in German for those who have a good enough command of the language.

The cooperation between Hladnik and Host was very close and friendly. It is clear from their correspondence that both were good botanists. Hladnik sent Host plants and valuable information about their locations from Carniola, an area that was quite distant for him. At the same time, their cooperation was also completely practical, as both of them tended their own gardens. It is interesting that both of them dealt with autochthonous plants. In his garden in Vienna, Host tried to show all the flora of the then monarchy, while Hladnik tried to show all the flora of Carniola at that time. Host also prepared a flora of the whole of Austria, for which he again needed a lot of data from the area that Hladnik knew very well. In short, their cooperation was complementary and, above all, at a very high professional level. Host's letters, which are kept by the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, clearly testify to all this cooperation.

The rich correspondence and notes, as well as the clarification of the conditions at that time, significantly contribute to making the knowledge and new discoveries of that time known to both researchers and the general public. Such work has never been done before. Even more importantly, the authors managed to involve the most competent botanical historian from Vienna in the work, who added a Viennese perspective on the conditions at the time and contributed important documents from the Viennese archives. Thus, the connection between Vienna and Ljubljana from that time continues here.

Contents

- In memory of Dr. Nada Praprotnik (1951 – 2023)   7
- Recenzion 1   8
- Recenzion 2   10
- Creating Botanical Knowledge about the Flora of Carniola   13
- The Enlightenment in Ljubljana   25
- Letters and their importance as sources for the history of science   33
- Biography of Nicolaus Thomas Host (1761–1834)   37
- The Botanical Garden at the Belvedere: a unique new type of “knowledge space”   43
- Host as a botanist   55
- Biography of Franc Hladnik (1773–1844)   65
- Ljubljana, Klagenfurt and Vienna: the circulation of botanical knowledge between cooperation and competition   75
- Development of the cooperation between Hladnik and Host   85
- Results of their fruitful collaboration   101
- Letters   116
- Conclusion   261
- Notes   271
- Arhiv / Archives   272
- Literatura / Literature   274
- Index images   286
- Index   291

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