Helge Wendt is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests lie mainly in global history. He received his PhD from the University of Mannheim with a transnational, transconfessional, and diachronic study of colonial Christian mission. For the past ten years, he has been researching primarily on the topic of a global history of knowledge of coal from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Here lies his connection to the topic of mining and the Anthropocene.

Recent Publications

(2021) Missionizing and Transforming the Land: Alexander Merensky in Botshabelo.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 22. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9317

(2021) Shifting the Phase-In: Primary and Secondary Coal Regions, the Protoanthropocene, and Early Industrializations, in: Ulrike Zeigermann, Gilles Lespesant, Katrin Beer (Hg.), Contested Futures for Energy Transition (PoWiNE Working Paper 1), Magdeburg: Universitätsbibliothek Magdeburg, S. 20–22. https://journals.ub.ovgu.de/index.php/NFL/article/view/2007/1977

(2021) Missionizing and Transforming the Land: Alexander Merensky in Botshabelo.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia 22. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9317

(2020) Exploring Reforms in Cuban Education: The Mechanical Institute in Havana, 1830–1860, in: Terrae Incognitae 52, 3, S. 1–21. [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2020.1841880

(2020) El conocimiento sobre el carbón y su minería en Filipinas (1840–1869), in: Illes i Imperis 22, S. 125–145. [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.31009/illesimperis.2020.i22.07

(2019) Interrelations and Disruptions in the Exchange of Knowledge: Coal, Geology, and Industrialization in Mexico (19th and Early 20th Centuries), in: History of Technology 34, S. 89–106. 10.5040/9781350085626.0007

(2019) Transfer of Knowledge, the State, and Economy in the Cuban Coal Question (Nineteenth Century), in: L. Schilling u. J. Vogel (Hg.), Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Berlin, S. 34–47. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110553734