Liechtenstein Academic Society

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The Liechtenstein Academic Society e. V. ( LAG ) is a non-profit association based in the Liechtenstein capital Vaduz .

History, goals and activity

The Liechtenstein Academic Society was founded on January 3, 1951 by committed students and academics. The founding members of the association included Gerard Batliner (1928–2008), Georg Malin (* 1926), Rudolf Wenaweser (1925–2007) and Felix Marxer (1922–1997).

The Academic Society wanted to influence cultural life in Liechtenstein by studying cultural, political, social, philosophical and religious issues. According to the association's statutes of 1951, the association's founders pursued the goal of “training” the members to become “responsible citizens with a Catholic way of life”. They wanted to promote mutual understanding between academics and the people and cultivate mutual friendship.

The LAG advocates freedom and funding for science . In the early years, the association mainly organized lecture and discussion evenings and published letters to the editor in the country's newspapers. The idea of ​​a new magazine called “Der Punkt”, which was to introduce a new reporting and discussion culture from 1963, could not be realized.

In its own «Verlag der LAG» (VLAG) founded in 1972, the Liechtenstein Academic Society issues individual publications on Liechtenstein-related topics as well as two series of publications on a high scientific level. In the "Liechtenstein - Politische Schriften" (LPS) series of publications, a total of 60 volumes with predominantly political, humanities and jurisprudential contributions were published by 2019, while the second series with the title of "Kleine Schriften" published a total of 55 volumes with short articles and Lecture texts published. Two years after their publication, the volumes of the series “Liechtenstein - Politische Schriften” are completely and free of charge accessible on the Internet platform eLiechtensteinensia of the Liechtenstein National Library .

The Academic Society founded the Liechtenstein Institute in Bendern in 1986 together with the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein .

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Liechtenstein Academic Society in 2001, two commemorative publications were published. In the same year, the association revised its statutes and expanded its objectives to include general commitment to Liechtenstein issues.

literature

  • Marie-Theres Frick et al .: 50 Years of the Liechtenstein Academic Society (LAG): Lectures on the occasion of the ceremony on December 8, 2001 in Vaduz . Publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society, Vaduz 2002.
  • Emanuel Schädler: The activities of the publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society from 1972 to 2015 - review and outlook . ( Online (PDF) ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society> The LAG> History. In: verlag-lag.li. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ The publishing program> Political writings. Publishing house of the Liechtenstein Academic Society, January 1, 2014, accessed on June 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ eLiechtensteinensia. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .