Comunicación epistolar y colaboración científica entre especialistas alemanes en sudamérica a fines del siglo XIX. Un estudio de la correspondencia entre Rodolfo Lenz y Robert Lehmann-Nitsche

JUAN ANTONIO ENNIS; CLAUDIO SOLTMANN

ROMANISTISCHES JAHRBUCH

De Gruyter

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2021 vol. 72 p. 311 - 338

0080-3898

The following paper undertakes the presentation and subsequent analysis of the initial section of an extended, although only partially preserved letter exchange between two salient German scholars settled in Argentina and Chile from the end of the 19th century on, and during the first decades of the 20th century. Rudolf Lenz, trained in Linguistics and Romance Languages in the renowned Romanistik school of Bonn, worked at the Instituto Pedagógico in Santiago de Chile, and Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, a Prussian physician and anthropologist, who was in charge of the Anthropological Section of a brand new modern Museum in Argentina?s recently founded city of La Plata. The letter exchange between both of them lasted from 1897 until 1928, and the analysis of its initial pieces (1897-1898) allows us to see how personal and scientific networks were constructed, and how German science and sociability managed to settle down in such distant locations, and despite this stay connected with its system of procedence.