Acta Borussica
The Acta Borussica ( Latin : Prussian reports / protocols / files ) are a collection of sources on the history of Prussia. Numerous volumes have been published since 1887, and a new series of Acta Borussica has been created since 1994.
Origin and organization
In the spring of 1887, the members of the Royal (later: Prussian) Academy of Sciences submitted an application to the philosophical-historical class to publish a comprehensive work on the Prussian state. This application was approved and work on Acta Borussica began.
The Acta Borussica were intended to supplement Frederick the Great's political correspondence and to record the development of the Prussian state. History , which is becoming ever more important, also influenced the fact that such a comprehensive work was written.
Initially, Acta Borussica was to be financed solely by the Royal Academy of Sciences, but an application for state subsidies was soon made .
Content
The Acta Borussica extend over many state and economic areas such as customs and excise administration, tariffs, grain trade policy, war magazine administration, organization of state administration, coin administration, police, traffic, roads, canals and water, trade, urbanism and the silk industry. Due to the large size, the descriptions often do not include the exact wording, but efforts are nevertheless made to present the relevant facts as objective, scientific as possible.
In addition, the minutes contain a comprehensive register of persons with biographical information on the persons involved in the meetings and resolutions.
New episode
Since 1994, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences has continued the older tradition. The first project realized in this context was the publication of the regesta , the files of the Prussian State Ministry since 1817. The Academy drew on preparatory work by historians from the GDR who had already dealt intensively with the state Prussian files before 1989. In the years after the fall of the Wall between 1994 and 2003, “The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry (1817–1934 / 38)” emerged in 12 regesta volumes. As a central source of Prussian politics in the 19th and 20th centuries, more than 5,200 minutes of the meetings were scientifically developed.
Associated works
- Royal Academy of Sciences (ed.): Acta Borussica. Monuments of the Prussian State Administration in the 18th Century (38 vol.). Berlin 1892 ff.
- The organization of the authorities and the general state administration of Prussia in the 18th century.
- The individual areas of administration
- Grain Trade Policy.
- Prussian coinage in the 18th century.
- Trade, customs and excise policy .
- Silk industry.
- The wool industry in Prussia under Friedrich Wilhelm I.
