International Coronelli Society for Globe Studies
| International Coronelli Society for Globe Studies | |
|---|---|
| purpose | Professional society |
| Chair: | Peter E. Allmayer-Beck |
| Establishment date: | 1952 in Vienna |
| Number of members: | about 300 |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | www.coronelli.org |
The International Coronelli Society for Globe Studies deals with globes , their history and their position in our culture. The company was formerly called the Coronelli World Association of Friends of the Globe .
The International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes (International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes) has the non-profit, non-material gain, the preoccupation with the globe as a specific cartographic form of expression, with its history and its position in the socio-cultural context - and in the same sense with instruments that are relevant for globe studies - to maintain and promote.
The society brings together scientists, collectors, museum curators, restorers and dealers worldwide, but also many institutions that own globes and libraries. Founded in Vienna in 1952 by enthusiasts around the Viennese private scholar and globe specialist Robert Haardt (1884–1962) as the “Coronelli World Association of Globe Friends”, it is one of the oldest societies involved in the history of cartography and the only one that is exclusively dedicated to globes is.
The society is named after the famous Venetian polymath and globe maker Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718), the founder of the "Accademia Cosmographica degli Argonauti", the first geographic society in the world. Its headquarters are in Vienna .
The original main goals of the "Coronelli World Association of Friends of the Globe" were to promote the work of Robert Haardt's private globe museum and to compile a list of all the old globes that have survived worldwide (i.e. manufactured before 1850).
The International Coronelli Society has been publishing the world's only globally-specific, scientific periodical "Der Globusfreund" since 1952 (since 2002 also in an English version under the title "Globe Studies"). Up to and including 2019, it organized fourteen international scientific symposia.