Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Society was founded in Hanover in the spring of 1966 and has set itself the task of deepening knowledge of the work and activities of Leibniz , of cultivating connections between the disciplines of the sciences and of spreading his ideas convey. It has members in Germany and abroad and works closely with Leibniz societies in the USA, Spain, Israel, Japan and Italy.
Act
The society operates its own web portal in cooperation with the editors of the Leibniz Academy Edition of All Writings and Letters . There are already several thousand pages of texts from the Leibniz Academy edition available to the user, as well as an accumulated subject index , an accumulated index of persons, an accumulated index of publications and various other research aids.
Since 1966, the society has been organizing international Leibniz congresses every five to six years - in cooperation with changing partners it also organizes symposia on alternating topics at different conference locations (previously for example Berlin , Brussels , Buenos Aires , Jerusalem , Madrid , Montréal , Paris , Rome ).
The society has published the journal Studia Leibnitiana since 1969 . The magazine is devoted to the history of philosophy and science from the 16th to the 18th centuries, with supplements and special editions appearing in casual succession .
At approximately monthly intervals, the Society holds public lectures on philosophical and other issues of general interest.
President
- Rudolf Hillebrecht (Founding President)
- Konrad Müller (1966–1968)
- Rudolf Hillebrecht (1969–1984)
- Eduard Pestel (1984–1988)
- Ernst Gottfried Mahrenholz (1998-2003)
- Rolf Wernstedt (2003-2016)
- Erich Barke (since 2016)