As a member of the scientific commission of the Novara circumnavigation (1857–1859), the naturalist and later director of the k. k. naturhistorisches Hofmuseum Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884) kept a diary. His stay in New Zealand is documented in five diaries. Thanks to a donation by the Hochstetter family, the first four have been in the possession of the Natural History Museum Vienna since 2016. These New Zealand diaries are first-person documents and field diaries at the same time; they contain scientific records as well as everyday and private observations. His first diary – the so-called “Auckland Diary” – covers the period from 8 January to 5 March 1859.
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The diary was scanned with a book scanner by the external service provider REISSWOLF GmbH at a resolution of 400 dpi at original size.
An annotated and contextualized translitteration of the handwritten diary has been published in 2023:
Harzhauser, M. & Jovanovic-Kruspel, S. (Hrsg.) (2023): Hochstetters Auckland Tagebuch – Erstes Neuseeland-Tagebuch des Geologen Ferdinand von Hochstetter: Ein Aufschluß in Buchform. – 304 S., Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien). ISBN 978-3-903096-48-6
Publications
Harzhauser, M. & Jovanovic-Kruspel, S. (Hrsg.) (2023): Hochstetters Auckland Tagebuch – Erstes Neuseeland-Tagebuch des Geologen Ferdinand von Hochstetter: Ein Aufschluß in Buchform. – 304 S., Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien). ISBN 978-3-903096-48-6
Individual scans of Hochstetter's "Auckland Diary" (TIF format)
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Cover of Hochstetter's "Auckland Diary" (Newzealand Diary 1)Page 45 of Hochstetter's "Auckland Diary" (Newzealand Diary 1)Page 11 of Hochstetter's "Auckland Diary" (Newzealand Diary 1)Cover of the commented transcript of Hochstetters "Auckland Diary" published by the NHMW and OeAW
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