Meike Knittel

About the Author

Meike Knittel is a historian whose research focuses on the dynamic relationships between people and the natural world during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on extensive archival work, she examines how scientific practices, territorial expansion, and environmental knowledge shaped European societies between 1700 and 1850. Her scholarship bridges environmental history, the history of science, and cultural geography, offering nuanced insights into the emergence of natural history as both a discipline and a worldview. She is particularly interested in how local knowledge and global networks intersected in the study and classification of nature.