Hermann Knothe Prize

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The Hermann Knothe Prize - Science Prize of Upper Lusatia has been awarded by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences since 2006 and has been awarded since 2007. The prize was named after Hermann Knothe (1821–1903), a regional historian of Upper Lusatia , who published a large number of writings on the history of Upper Lusatia.

The foundation of the award was initiated by the historian Matthias Herrmann .

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The prize is endowed with 700 euros and is shared in equal parts by the cities of the historic six-city association of Upper Lusatia, Bautzen , Görlitz , Kamenz , Löbau , Zittau and Lauban / Lubań , as well as the now Polish city of Zgorzelec . This award recognizes outstanding achievements in researching Upper Lusatian culture and history. Young academics, especially students, Magister Artium (MA) and doctoral candidates, are invited to submit papers on a topic from Upper Lusatia. The works can address historical as well as art and cultural-historical issues, e.g. from the areas of the environment, cultural landscape, technology, economy, society, family, demography, everyday life, material culture or politics.

Every year the Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e. V. publicly advertises a topic on which scientific papers can be submitted. The theses to be submitted should "bring together and support regional scientific research in Upper Lusatia in all areas with their cultural reference fields, the history of science and intellectual movements" . The mayors of the six cities will be informed about the process of the tender and the decision of the award committee. At the same time, they will be invited to the award ceremony in Görlitz, which is linked to the Society's annual spring meeting in April.

An award committee selects the one whose author will be chosen as the award winner in the following year from among the award-winning fonts. The prize can also be divided after the jury's decision. The award ceremony takes place by the President of the Society at the spring conference, at which the award winner gives a lecture on his work.

Acceptance of the award obliges the author to first publish the work or to summarize it in the New Lusatian Magazine NF .

Award winners

  • 2006: Kai Wenzel: The relief image of King Rudolf II on the Bautzen Imperial Tower: Rex sedet in medio
  • 2007: no award-worthy work on the topic "The landed nobility in Upper Lusatia in the 19th century"
  • 2008: no award-worthy work on the topic "Prussian and Saxon Upper Lusatia - traditional ties in a cultural landscape"
  • 2009: no announcement
  • 2010: Markus Lammert: The division of the city of Görlitz in 1945 and its consequences for its residents.
  • 2011: Martin Brützke: Between preservation of status and marginalization: The Upper Lusatian Six Cities from the crisis of the Bohemian uprising to the end of the Thirty Years' War.
  • 2012: Jan Bergmann: A charitable loner - the concept and history of the Joachimstein Monastery in the context of the biography of the founder Joachim Siegismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen and his statutes.
  • 2013: Thomas Hardtke: The Protestant parish in Zittau in the Third Reich.
  • 2014/15: Sven Brajer: The economic structural change in southern Upper Lusatia in the textile industry in the second half of the 19th century using the example of the companies 'Carl Gottlieb Hoffmann' from Neugersdorf and 'Hermann Wünsches Erben' from Ebersbach / Sa.
  • 2016: Lubina Mahling for her work on the establishment of orphanages and school institutions in Upper and Lower Lusatia during the 18th century
  • 2017: Christoph Hanzig for a thesis on the murders of children and adolescents in the Großschweidnitz State Institution
  • 2019: Martin Christ: The century of the Reformation in a small Bohemian town: Lauban and his Lutheran preachers, approx. 1520–1620.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Decision of the city of Kamenz on the financial participation in the award
  2. ↑ a b Statutes for the "Hermann Knothe Prize" of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences - Upper Lusatia Science Prize. In: olgdw.de. Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences , accessed on July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dr. Martin Christ receives science award. In: uni-erfurt.de. University of Erfurt , April 29, 2019, accessed on July 20, 2019 .