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.
- Current
- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
The Rubondo-Experiment
The examination of the often neglected ecological dimension of decolonization contributes to a better understanding of the impacts of historical transformations on the natural environment.…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Collecting Knowledge in the Province
The project aims to analyze, through objects, places, institutions such as publishing houses, associations, societies, or universities, as well as individuals and other actors, how collections…
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- Gotha Research Centre
Network for Early Modern Oriental Studies
With the participation of researchers from Arabic studies, theology, philology and philosophy, an international working group at the Gotha Research Centre is researching the early history of Oriental…
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- Gotha Research Centre
Johann Christian Senckenbergs Observationes
The project examines the diaries of the Frankfurt physician and founder Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-1772), which exhibit characteristics of both the religious diary and the epistemic genre of…
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- Gotha Research Centre
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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- Gotha Research Centre
Ways and works of Michael Kosmeli (1773-1844)
Michael Kosmeli (1773-1844), lawyer, writer, translator, botanist and Jew's harp player, travelled throughout his life as an itinerant scholar and musician through half of Europe to Asia, preferably…
- Gotha Research Centre
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.…