Karl Jaspers House
| Karl Jaspers House | |
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 Karl Jaspers House |
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| Consist: | since 2013 |
| Facility location: | Oldenburg |
| Type of research: | Documentation of the estate of Karl Jaspers |
| Subjects: | Humanities |
| Areas of expertise: | Philosophy, history of ideas, cultural studies |
| Management: | Matthias Bormuth (Chairman of the Karl Jaspers Society and holder of the Heisenberg Professorship for Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Oldenburg ) |
| Employee: | 2 |
| Homepage: | karl-jaspers-gesellschaft.de |
The Karl Jaspers House in Oldenburg is the seat of the Karl Jaspers Society and houses the holdings of the private library of the German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers .
history
Today's Karl-Jaspers-Haus itself has no historical reference to Jaspers, apart from the fact that it is located in the Oldenburg Dobbenviertel, where he spent his childhood and youth. Jaspers was born in 1883 at Moltkestrasse 19 in Oldenburg, in 1892 the family moved to Bismarckstrasse 12, from 1892 to 1901 Jaspers attended the Grand Ducal High School.
The brickworks owner Carl Julius Dinklage had the building built in 1912, and in 1939 it became the property of the Oldenburg State before it became the property of Georg Joel , the National Socialist Prime Minister of the Free State of Oldenburg , who lived there with his family until the end of the war. The house was then used by the English, then by the state administration and finally by the study institute for teacher training before it was vacant. Most recently, it was bought and renovated by EWE in order to accommodate the Jaspers library. On September 7, 2013, the Karl-Jaspers-Haus was opened in its current form.
Library
In the Karl-Jaspers-Haus Jaspers' work library of 12,673 volumes is kept, which has been completely preserved by his last assistant, Hans Saner . She inherited this in 1974. In 2009, the University Library of Oldenburg and the Lower Saxony Foundation were able to acquire it for 300,000 euros . Here it is made accessible to science today. Of particular interest in the history of ideas are the numerous underlinings, marginalia and inserts that Jaspers has left in his books.
Events
The Karl-Jaspers-Haus is also the seat of the Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft. It is the self-proclaimed "concern of the Jaspers Society to bring various food for thought to the Oldenburg society through lectures, readings and exhibitions in the Jaspers House." Accordingly, it regularly opens the house to the interested public and invites, among other things, to lectures and readings a.
In addition, the Jaspers Society awards fellowships for research in the Jaspers library. The visiting researchers can stay in two apartments within the Jaspers House for the duration of their stay.
Web links
- Website of the Karl Jaspers Society
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information. Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ^ History. Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Karl Jaspers House opened. University of Oldenburg, September 6, 2013, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Christoph Kiefer: Life moves into the Jaspers house. In: Nordwest-Zeitung. May 29, 2013, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ The library. Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ^ Karl Jaspers Library. Scientific collections, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Katrin Zempel-Bley: Jasper's library a stroke of luck for the university. In: Oldenburger online newspaper. September 8, 2013, accessed January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Welcome. Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Karl Jaspers House opened. Place of interdisciplinary thinking. University of Oldenburg, September 6, 2013, accessed on January 6, 2020 .