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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The aristocratic self at the end of the Ancien Régime
The project uses the diaries of the Gotha guard commander and chamberlain Christian Georg von Helmolt (1728-1805) from 1783 to 1788 and the journals of the court junketer and publicist Karl Heinrich…
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Studies on Military Cultures of Knowledge in Central Germany in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Example of the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg
The project examines the circulation of military knowledge during the early modern period on the basis of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, focusing on the period from 1670 to 1770, since 1.) the…
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Emergence, Preservation and Transmission of Ceremonial Knowledge in the 18th Century Using the Example of the Gotha Court
The research project examines ceremonial as a form of communication in the 18th century using the example of the Gotha ducal court. The extensive correspondence between the dukes of Gotha and other…
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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…