ETH Zurich University Archive
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 The university archive is located in the main building of ETH Zurich |
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| Archive type | University archive |
| place | Zurich |
| Visitor address | Rämistrasse 101 |
| founding | 1999 |
| Age of the archive material | from approx. 1850 |
| ISIL | CH-001807-7 |
| carrier | ETH Zurich |
| Website | University archive of the ETH Zurich |
The ETH Zurich University Archives are responsible for securing, indexing and disseminating documents from ETH Zurich, which was founded in 1855, and the ETH Board . It also looks after the private estates of scientists and societies associated with ETH Zurich. Its holdings are used to research national and international history of science, universities and technology. Biographical dossiers and other documentation complement the archive holdings.
The ETH Zurich University Archive was founded on the basis of the Swiss Federal Archiving Act (BGA) passed in 1998. Archives from private estates but also from the administration of the ETH Zurich, which had already been handed over to the ETH Library in the previous decades, were integrated into the university archive.
Content focus
Institutional holdings
The institutional holdings go back to the time when the Eidgenössisches Polytechnic (now ETH Zurich ) was founded in 1855. The historical school council archive (1854–1992) contains the minutes and files of the long-standing management committee of ETH Zurich. This inventory will be continued by archiving the documents of the ETH Board as the successor authority (since 1993). From the subordinate organizational units (from the departments to institutes to individual chairs), among other things, archivable administrative documents, meeting minutes, documents on research projects or congress reports are archived. In addition to analog documents, the ETH Zurich University Archive also archives digital data, for example historical websites in the ETH Zurich web archive.
Private archives
The existing private archives complement the institutional archives. The individual holdings include documents such as lecture manuscripts and transcripts, unpublished manuscripts, field diaries and diaries, sketchbooks, construction drawings and extensive scientific correspondence. Represented in the private archives are engineers (e.g. Karl Culmann , Robert Maillart , Aurel Stodola ), natural scientists (e.g. Albert Einstein documentation by Carl Seelig , Vladimir Prelog , Leopold Ruzicka , Rudolf Wolf ), mathematicians (e.g. B. Paul Bernays , Heinz Hopf , Hermann Weyl , Eduard Stiefel , George Pólya ) but also psychologists (e.g. CG Jung's work archive ). The archives of individual scientific societies and associations related to ETH Zurich round off this group of holdings.
Stock additions
A complementary focus is on subject-related holdings (e.g. archive on the history of nuclear energy in Switzerland) and collections on the history of universities and science.
Research / digital offers
The archive provides the following online research options and access:
- Online research in the indexing information of the archive (ongoing expansion)
- Access to digitized archive holdings (network platform, ongoing expansion)
- Access to the full text of the minutes of the Swiss School Council meeting
- Legacy directories: Older finding aids (PDFs) for selected legacies
- Archives from and about Albert Einstein in a biographical context
Web links
- Website of the ETH Zurich University Archives
- ETH Zurich collections and archives
- ETH Zurich web archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Act on Archiving Portal of the Swiss Government. Retrieved October 25, 2017
- ↑ University archive online online archive of the ETH Zurich. Retrieved October 25, 2017
- ↑ e-manuscripta.ch composite platform of ETH Zurich. Retrieved October 25, 2017
- ↑ Minutes of the School Council Minutes of the ETH Zurich. Retrieved October 25, 2017
- ^ Einstein Online archival material from and about Albert Einstein of the ETH Zurich. Retrieved October 25, 2017