Kiel list of scholars

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The project Kieler Schehrtenverzeichnis - Kiel Professors from 1919 to 1965 is an online collection of biographical data on all Kiel university professors who taught at Christian Albrechts University between 1919 and 1965 .

The project

Goal setting

In the first phase, the professors from the period from 1919 to 1965 are to be recorded and listed. For this purpose, all important life data, professional stations and scientific publications are compiled for the individual persons.

As with other catalogs of this type (see the professorial catalogs of the University of Leipzig and the University of Rostock ), the professor's title and regular membership of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität's teaching staff are the main criteria for admission. The group of people recorded in the catalog also includes honorary professors and non-scheduled extraordinaries . The individual professors are presented with their most important biographical data, academic stations and publications. As far as possible, a picture of all persons should be posted.

The project of the Department of Regional History with a focus on the history of Schleswig-Holstein in the Middle Ages / Early Modern Times thus forms a central component for research into the history of universities and science in Kiel .

On April 20 and 21, 2012, the Department of Regional History with a focus on Schleswig-Holstein in the Middle Ages / Early Modern Times, under the direction of Oliver Auge and Swantje Piotrowski, invited to a symposium in the Kiel Art Gallery . Around 100 scientists and guests dealt with the question “Why the Kiel professor catalog?” And discussed the advantages and possible uses of such a comprehensive biographical database of professors from Kiel.

Since November 2013, in close cooperation with the communication systems working group of the Institute for Computer Science, the Kiel scholars directory has been implemented with the latest technologies of the Semantic Web .

Database

The Kiel list of scholars forms an important part of the university's history. Due to its continuous processing, the collected data is kept up-to-date and can be continuously expanded. In addition to complex queries for research purposes, it also offers future users the option of statistically evaluating questions about the social and regional origin of the Kiel professors in selected time periods.

The biographical basis of the database was obtained by taking over the digitized version of "Volbehr / Weyl" from 1956 created by the Kiel University Library . To fill the database, the relevant printed biographical reference works are first systematically evaluated, including the “ General German Biography ”, the “ New German Biography ”, the “ German Biographical Encyclopedia ”, “ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar ” and the “ Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig -Holstein and Lübeck ". Another important source of information is the "Christiana Albertina" magazine, which has been published twice a year since 1966. In a further step, the personnel files, primarily those of the University Archives in Schleswig ( LASH ), are to be evaluated in addition to the printed records as a controlling authority .

Current Semantic Web technologies are used to create the directory . The Kiel list of scholars thus meets the requirements of modern research in the history of science and enables networking with other directories and the treatment of completely new future research questions.

literature

  • Oliver Auge, Martin Göllnitz: The Christian Albrechts University and its historiography. In: Christiana Albertina 78/2014, pp. 38–58.
  • Swantje Piotrowski: The Kiel professor catalog online. In: Schleswig-Holstein. 02/2012, pp. 40-41.
  • Swantje Piotrowski: The Kiel professor catalog online: A project presentation. In: Communications from the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 81/2011, pp. 40–44. ( Online version PDF , 10.5 MB)
  • A catalog full of university professors. Regional historians will compile an online data collection by the anniversary. In: Kieler Nachrichten of May 3, 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eye, Göllnitz: The Christian Albrechts University and its historiography. 2014, p. 44f .: The restriction to the period up to 1965 has practical and data law reasons.
  2. ^ Piotrowski: The Kiel professor catalog online. 2012, p. 40: Since May 2010 the project "Der Kieler Professorenkatalog online" of the department for regional history of the historical seminar of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel has been devoting itself to the research of a central part of the Kiel university and scientific history.
  3. Press information on the conference "The University of Kiel and its professors or: Why the Kiel professor catalog?" . Retrieved September 17, 2012.
  4. See Friedrich Volbehr and Richard Weyl: Professors and Lecturers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665–1954. With information about the other teaching staff and the university librarians and a list of the rectors . Kiel 1956.