Felix König and the European science community across enemy lines during the First World War

• Published in: The Polar Journal
• Main Author: Rack, Ursula
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Informa UK Limited 2014
• Subjects: König; Antarctic; World War One; prisoner of war; König's mother; Nordenskjöld; Nansen; international science community; 43 - History; heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430308 - European history (excl. British; classical Greek and Roman); heritage and archaeology::4303 - Historical studies::430323 - Transnational history; 37 - Earth sciences::3709 - Physical geography and environmental geoscience::370902 - Glaciology; 44 - Human society::4406 - Human geography::440606 - Political geography; Fridtjof; Antarc*; Fridtjof Nansen; Otto Nordenskjöld; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10092/107628; https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2014.913928

This paper explores the process of international cooperation within a scientific community in wartime, focusing on Felix König. He was an Austrian participant in the “Second German Antarctic Expedition” (1911-1912) led by Wilhelm Filchner. Later, he organised his own Antarctic expedition which had m...