Königsberg learned society

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The Königsberg learned society was an academic society of the interwar period in Königsberg (Prussia) . It was founded as part of the Königsberg Kant celebration (1924) . The initiators were Herbert Kraus , Erich Seeberg and Eilhard Alfred Mitscherlich . Divided into a humanities and a natural science class, it was made up of representatives from certain university sciences . It was entirely in line with the East Prussian program .

"The purpose of this foundation was to combine all intellectual work in the constricted province into a solid bulwark of Germanic culture, in order to preserve what we owned and to research what unexploited treasures of old Prussian culture can still be found on East Prussian soil." Problems of this kind concerning East Prussia should be given priority. It almost seemed as if those times would come back when the professors liked to devote themselves to the studies of their homeland, which had probably never rested in the natural sciences, from the investigations into the amber of a Poliander to Hamann's teacher Rappolt and the Hartmanns, or if one thought of the theologian Wigand , who wrote a first Prussian botany, of course only selecting a small part of it. In the humanities, especially in the eighteenth century, history stood almost next to the university, and the linguistic area predominantly occupied the members of the German Society . Now through the new foundation a new place was prepared for all these things. In this context, Walther Ziesemer was able to organize a worthy edition of Simon Dach 's works, just as he initiated the large-scale Prussian dictionary . "

- Götz von Selle

literature

Both classes published their own series .

  • [Writings of the Königsberg learned society / special series] / Königsberg learned society. Halle (Saale) [u. a.]: [sn], 1930–1938 (series) magazines / series
  • Annual report of the Königsberg learned society / Königsberg learned society. Halle: Niemeyer, 1925–1942 (magazine) magazines / series
  • Writings of the Königsberg learned society, natural science class / Königsberg learned society / natural science class. Halle: Niemeyer, 1924–1944 (series) magazines / series
  • Writings of the Königsberg learned society, humanities class / Königsberg learned society / humanities class. Halle: Niemeyer, 1924–1944 (magazine) magazines / series
  • Writings of the Königsberg learned society, humanities class / Königsberg learned society / humanities class. Halle: Niemeyer, 1924–1944 (series)
  • Carl Diesch : The State and University Library Königsberg and the scientific life in Königsberg 1927-1945. Introduced and commented by Manfred Komorowski . In: library. Research and Practice 18 (1994), pp. 364-383, especially pp. 380-383.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz von Selle : History of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia . Königsberg 1944. 2nd edition: Würzburg 1956, p. 353 f.
  2. ^ Dieter Hertz-Eichenrode: Politics and Agriculture in East Prussia 1919–1930. Investigation of a structural problem in the Weimar Republic (1969)
  3. ↑ Writings of the humanities class (Regesta Imperii)
  4. ↑ Writings of the Natural Science Class (hathitrust.org)