Behind the Texts: the Collaborative Network of Daniel Sennert’s Dissertations

Abstract

The guiding idea behind the Sennert Collaborators database is the recognition that university dissertations of the early modern period were not merely academic exercises but critical artifacts in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. This digital project focuses on the extensive collaborative networks surrounding Daniel Sennert, a pioneering professor of medicine at the University of Wittenberg in the seventeenth century. By cataloging the dissertations he supervised and by mapping the connections between the people and places involved, the database sheds new light on how ideas circulated, evolved, and took root in the intellectual and practical domains of early modern Europe.