Andrea Wulf

Andrea Wulf (born 1972 in New Delhi , India ) is a German - British cultural historian .

Andrea Wulf (2016)

Life

Andrea Wulf grew up as a child of German development workers in India. She began studying cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg and earned a master's degree in design history from the Royal College of Art in London . Since then she has lived and worked as a writer in Great Britain and published in The Guardian , The Sunday Times , Wall Street Journal , Financial and LA Times .

She wrote books on the history of gardens and gardening, the passages of Venus and Alexander von Humboldt .

Fonts

• This Other Eden. Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History . Little, Brown 2005, ISBN 978-0-316-72580-4 .
• The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession . Heinemann, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-434-01612-9 .
• The founding gardeners. How the revolutionary generation created an American garden . Heinemann, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-434-01910-6 .
• Chasing Venus. The Race to Measure the Heavens . Knopf, New York 2012, OCLC 5894489537
  • The hunt for Venus and the survey of the solar system . Translation by Hainer Kober . Bertelsmann, Munich, ISBN 978-3-570-10095-0
  • The measurement of the sky. From the greatest scientific adventure of the 18th century . Same translation. Penguin, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-328-10228-1
• The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World . Knopf, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-385-35066-2 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature . Translation by Hainer Kober . Bertelsmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-570-10206-0 .
• The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt . A journey of discovery. Translated by Gabriele Werbeck. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-10350-0 .

Awards

• 2010: CBHL Annual Literature Award for The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession
• 2015: Costa Book Award (biography) for The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Science and Technology Category) for The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World
• 2016: Royal Society Science Book Prize for The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World
  • Cundill Prize (Recognition of Excellence Prize) for The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
  • Bavarian book prize for Alexander von Humboldt and the invention of nature
• 2017: Dingle Prize for The Invention of Nature: the Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
• 2019: Lichtenberg Medal
• 2019: Knowledge book of the year for The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt

Web links

Commons : Andrea Wulf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrea Wulf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Andrea Wulf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Short biography and reviews of works by Andrea Wulf at perlentaucher.de
• Andrea Wulf , website
• Andrea Wulf , at Random House
• Deutschlandfunk (DLF) nuances. Music and personal questions from February 4, 2018: The art historian and book author Andrea Wulf in conversation with Marietta Schwarz
• Interview 60 min in one to one - The Talk, BR 2016
• WDR 3 (West German Broadcasting) mosaic. Conversation on Saturday June 29, 2019
• WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) table talk. Culture of conversation with prominent contemporaries from July 17, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Alexander von Humboldt and the Invention of Nature" - Humboldt is alive! In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on February 4, 2018]).
2. ↑ Denis Scheck: Andrea Wulf: "The adventures of Alexander von Humboldt". In: »Druckfrisch« (Das Erste [Bayerischer Rundfunk]). ARD, March 17, 2019, accessed on March 29, 2019 . 
3. ^ Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize