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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La Belle Anglaise
The Lutheran Duchess Luise Dorothea, born in Sachsen-Meiningen (1710-1767), had a significant impact on the court and political-cultural life in 18th century Gotha. She belongs to a group of…
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Digitisation of Prints from the Gotha Research Library that have been Verified in VD17 as Unique.
The Gotha Research Library preserves over 12,000 unique print titles from the period 1601 to 1700. All of these titles are catalogued in the Register of Printed Works of the 17th century Published in…
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Initial Cataloguing of the Perthes Publishing House Archive (1785–1945/53)
In its efforts to catalogue the Perthes Publishing House Archive, the Gotha Research Library is currently focusing on the historical archive of the Justus Perthes Publishing House up until 1945/1953.…
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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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Gotha around 1800: Nature – Science – History
Around 1800, Gotha was a court interconnected throughout Europe. Since the founding of the duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), the dukes’ collecting interests gave rise to extensive collections of…
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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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Indexing the correspondence and personal documents of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff (1626–1692)
The scholar and statesman Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff is considered one of the most important representatives of the European Republic of Letters in the early modern period. He is regarded as the…
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Books, Parks, and Gardens
The cooperation project involves the digitization of rare and difficult-to-access prints and manuscripts pertaining to horticulture and landscape parks in the Gotha Research Library, the Duchess Anna…
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Cartographies of Africa and Asia (1800-1945)
The Perthes Collection, legacy of the publishing houses Justus Perthes in Gotha, Justus Perthes in Darmstadt and VEB Hermann Haack in Gotha, is one of the most important map publishing archives in…
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Digitization of Medieval Manuscripts
The Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt is participating in the digitization of the manuscript heritage in German libraries. It has digitized 247 of its 525 significant medieval…
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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…
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The Gotha Daily Newspaper Digital (1850-1918)
As the historical state library of the territories of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Gotha Research Library collects the regional print production as completely as possible, makes…
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Sea Maps: For a History of Globalization from the Perspective of Water.
Maps, especially sea and ocean maps, have played a marginal role in the history of globalization so far, although they visualize maritime spaces along with their associated global connections like…