Tüchert, Florian

„Learning to Read Maps - Practices of Map Use in Navigation Instruction“

The project includes both the standards and the diverse practices of sea-chart based navigation instruction. Nautical charts reveal political and economic interests. The project looks at how theoretical and practical knowledge on maritime spaces was increasingly  standardized and professionalized. The main focus is the radical change represented by substituting a family-based practical navigation instruction with a system of schools in the German-speaking regions representing national ideas. Thus the seamen's use, handling and reception of maps becomes comprehensible.

Since 2019: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at University of Bremen, Deparment of History / doctoral candidate at DSM (German Maritime Museum

2013–2018: Employed at Library Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Augsburg and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

2014–2017: Master in Interdisciplinary European Studies, University of Augsburg, Thesis „Ausgestellte Erinnerung – Die Expeditionen des ‚Tegetthoff‘ und der ‚Novara‘ im musealen Fokus des modernen Österreich“ ("Memory exhibited: The expeditions of Tegetthoff and Novara in the context of museums in modern Austria"

2011–2014: Bachelor in History, History of Art and Cultural History, University of Augsburg

Conference report: International Conference on the History of Cartography – Themenschwerpunkt „Maps and Water“, 14.07.2019 – 19.07.2019 Amsterdam, in: H-Soz-Kult, 26.08.2019. (https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8406)

Assistance, Exhibition „Vor 175 Jahren errichtet – vor 75 Jahren zerstört. Das Gebäude der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek“. Kabinettpräsentation des Bildarchivs, 1.10.-16.11.2018. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.