Johann Conrad Fischer (1773-1854), pioneer during the Industrial Revolution and founder of GF, travelled far and wide. He covered over 30,000 kilometres from his journeyman's hike at the age of 19 to his last trip to the World Exhibition in London 60 years later. In seven diaries, he reported on his experiences, technological discoveries and social contacts.
For Fischer's 250th birthday, the Iron Library is realising a digital edition of his travel diaries and is also translating the texts from the original German into English for the first time. The texts are enriched with itineraries, detailed register data on persons, companies and places as well as numerous images.
Click here for the edition: www.johannconradfischer.com
Entry in the infoclio.ch Source edition-database
Online events
This week you can learn more about the project and the edition in two online events:
"Travel by mouse click: the digital edition of the travel journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794-1851"
Presentation by Franziska Eggimann (in English)
e-editiones community meeting, online (Teams-Link), Tuesday 13.6.2023, 17h00
no registration necessary
Information: https://www.e-editiones.org/posts/community-event-fischer/
"Travel by mouse click: the digital edition of Johann Conrad Fischer's travel diaries (1773-1854) - a source and mediation project"
Presentation by Franziska Eggimann (in German)
History of Technology over Lunch, online, Friday 16.6.2023, 12 p.m.
Information: https://www.gtg.tu-berlin.de/ws/index.php/tagungen/tagungsankuendigunge…
Jubilee journey
In the footsteps of Johann Conrad Fischer in England
12 to 22 June 2023
We travel important stages and highlights from Fischer's travel diaries and report on what has changed since his time.
Follow the journey live on social media:
https://twitter.com/250jcf
https://www.youtube.com/@ironlibrary
