Projects
A large number of projects are carried out at the Gotha collection and research centre. These range from collection-related and source-based cataloguing, preservation and research projects to digitisation and digital humanities projects. The collections are thus made usable for science and the public. The individual institutions work closely with various national and international co-operation partners. Explore a selection of current projects.
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Digging, collecting, knowledge - archaeology in its beginnings
Even before the institutional establishment of archaeological disciplines and museum presentations in the modern sense, material relics of the past were unearthed from the ground both accidentally and…
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Alchemy Network
The Alchemy Network, founded in December 2016, has set itself the goal of promoting exchange on the reconstruction of alchemical processes in the early modern period between historians and natural…
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Research Unit for Early-Modern Natural Law
Since 2016, the Research Centre for Early Modern Natural Law has been coordinating ongoing research on natural law in the early modern period and initiating new projects. The time frame under…
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Stategies of Collecting an Displaying China in Nineteenth-Century Germany
My research project brings renewed attention to a significant Chinese collection in early nineteenth-century Germany, the Chinese Cabinet in Gotha, established by Duke Emil August (1772–1822) of…
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Cataloguing the music manuscripts of the Gotha Research Library
The main focus of the historically grown music collection at the Research Library is Thuringian music history. The collection contains writings on music theory (8,000 notes, including 1,400…
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Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) assumes that digitalisation and technological progress have a significant impact on Islam, with diverse and…
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Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace
The project “Cultural Heritage in Cyberspace: Education, Preservation, Access”, which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), aims to create a comprehensive bi-national academic…
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Jacopo Strada's Magnum ac Novum Opus
Jacopo Strada (c. 1515–1588), antiquarian, architect and antiquarian dealer, created a 30-volume corpus, the Magnum ac Novum Opus (MaNO), for his patron Johann Jakob Fugger in the mid-16th century.…
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Orient Digital
The project “Orient Digital” is a collaborative initiative between the Berlin State Library, the Gotha Research Library, the IT department of the University Computer Centre in Leipzig and the Bavarian…