University History Office

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The department for university history at the University of Hamburg researches and communicates university and scientific history . In particular, the department is dedicated to the history of Hamburg University. The facility was set up by Eckart Krause. Involved in the construction was Rainer Nicolaysen , who heads the job since of 2010.

The Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded FVS Krause and Nicolaysen the Max Brauer Prize in 2008 for their commitment .

The office for university history is located in the main building of the University of Hamburg .

Hamburg Library for University History

The Hamburg Library for University History is part of the office . This includes more than 20,000 books, articles and special prints on the history of German-speaking universities and individual sciences . These can be researched online via the campus catalog of the Hamburg State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky .

The library also has a wide range of materials on people and topics from the history of the university. This includes tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and student leaflets since the 1960s.

Historic rector's room

Exhibits from the history of the Hamburg University are presented in the rooms of the workplace; in the so-called historical rector's room. The exhibits include busts and paintings - for example one by the founding rector of Hamburg University Karl Rathgen - the gold-plated key to the main building of the university, the rector's chain of office , a gown , a presidential desk , first editions of works by important Hamburg scholars and a collection of writings on the History of the Hamburg University.

100th anniversary of the University of Hamburg

For the 100th anniversary of the university, the workplace organized a series of lectures that extended over several semesters. The lecture series, which were divided into five parts, opened up a glimpse into the history of individual subjects. The speakers were members of the Hamburg faculty, external academics and the former university presidents Peter Fischer-Appelt and Jürgen Lüthje , who provided insights into their terms of office. The founder of the Department of University History, Eckart Krause, also gave a lecture within the series of lectures. Krause devoted himself to the question of when and in what way the University of Hamburg began to deal with its history. "

literature

  • Anton F. Guhl, Malte Habscheidt, Alexandra Jaeger (eds.): Lived University History: Results of the latest research - Eckart Krause on his 70th birthday (= Hamburg contributions to the history of science, special volume ). Reimer, Berlin et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-02866-6 .
  • Rainer Nicolaysen: The office for university history. The memory of the University of Hamburg. In: Tiedenkieker. Hamburgische Geschichtsblätter NF, No. 6 (2015), pp. 54–59.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ University medal in silver for Eckart Krause , press release of the University of Hamburg, November 28, 2008, accessed on October 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ Awarding of the honorary doctorate to Eckart Krause , Department of History at the University of Hamburg, April 29, 2015, accessed on October 7, 2017.
  3. ↑ Two on the trail of university history , Hamburger Abendblatt , June 3, 2008, accessed on October 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ The historic rector's room , flyer from the Office for University History (PDF), accessed on October 7, 2017.
  5. ^ Peter Fischer-Appelt: The University of Hamburg as a Reform University , accessed on December 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Lüthje: Excellence through networked diversity. On the development of the scientific profile of the University of Hamburg , accessed on December 21, 2019.
  7. ↑ Eckart Krause: On how Hamburg University deals with its history , accessed on December 21, 2019.