Briefsammlung Trew

The database contains the letters of the Nuremberg physician and natural scientist, Christoph Jakob Trew (1695-1769). The largest known collection of letters with an emphasis on medicine and science, the database provides access to about 19,000 letters and drafts from 2,200 authors from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Among the correspondents are many influential figures in the history of medicine and neighbouring sciences such as Ulisse Aldrovandi, Carolus Clusius, Johannes Crato and Conrad Gesner, as well as the theologian Johannes Calvin or the poet and natural historian Albrecht von Haller. The collection is a core resource for the study of the History of Science in the early modern period and, through the inclusion of authors from other disciplines, provides insight into the broad conditions of scholarly inquiry, as well as everyday life, during the early enlightenment.