Gotha research center at the University of Erfurt
The Gotha Research Center of the University of Erfurt , FZG, located in the former state parliament building at Am Schloßberg 2, is a central facility of the University of Erfurt , which is specifically geared towards the research subjects of Gotha's historical holdings.
These gave shape to two departments with their research fields: Gotha's archives, the art treasures of the castle and the museum attached to it, as well as the holdings of the research library brought with them an early modern focus. The archive of the former Perthes publishing house is rich in maps from the 19th century and contains the scientific correspondence between the publishing house and the researchers who contributed geographical information to expeditions in the 19th century. A separate focus on cartography and globalization studies with a focus on the 19th and early 20th centuries takes this into account.
The backbone of the research center are third-party funded research projects with longer duration. You get workplaces here; A doctoral program from the University of Erfurt is added with its own scholarships from the University of Erfurt. The great majority of researchers come to Gotha with short-term research projects as part of several scholarship programs. Conferences and lectures are part of the daily program.
The research center was founded in 2004 and initially headed by Peer Schmidt . From 2004 to 2018, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation's Herzog Ernst scholarship program was an essential part of the program , which is currently being largely continued with funds from the Ernst Abbe Foundation .
In 2008 the University of Erfurt created its own chair for knowledge cultures of the European modern age, occupied by the director of the research center Martin Mulsow ; the modern department is headed by Iris Schröder with its own chair .
Research profile
The central concern of the research center is the early modern intellectual history. In terms of an interdisciplinary history of science in the humanities, emphasis is placed on often neglected areas of early modern scholarship, which, however, were of great importance and prestige in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries and mutually enriched each other (such as antiquarian works, philological works Studies in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, etc., studies in ancient religion, numismatics, theology and history). These topics are dealt with in the research center on the basis of source studies, but also with modern cultural studies methods such as network research, book and reading history, science studies and historical anthropology (on the learned habitus, symbolic communication, etc.).
A graduate school on "Underground Research: Heterodoxy, Dissidence and Subversion 1600–1800" as part of the Graduate School "Religion in Modernization Processes" at the University of Erfurt deals with clandestine literature and the communication structures of the "underground". A DFG project on Friedrich Breckling aims to reconstruct the networks of religious separatists using lists of names from around 1700. A network “ Socinianism Research in Germany” and a network “Arabist and Hebrew scholarship of the early modern period” are in the making .
Another focus of the center is on research into early modern court culture , especially in central Germany, the court as a space for communication and a culture of knowledge, as well as the role of denominations (especially Protestantism) in representing the dynasty. The guests who gave lectures at the research center include Jan Assmann , Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann , Peter Burke , Robert Darnton , Kurt Flasch , Klaus Garber , Carlo Ginzburg , Anthony Grafton and Howard Hotson .
Series of publications
- Gothaer Research on the Early Modern Age Steiner Verlag
- Scholarly texts of the early modern period .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the website of the University of Erfurt ( Memento from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )