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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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
The Socialist Scale
The history of the Justus Perthes Gotha publishing house was particularly shaped by various upheavals and the tensions of political system rivalries, especially in the 20th century. The location of…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Researching Swahili
Africanist linguistics is closely connected to missionary and colonial claims to authority over the political upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. In my work, I therefore inquire into the…
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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Bifurcated Cartographies
Bifurcated cartographies (BC) seeks to shed light into this process from a map-making cross continental reading. It examines the representation of Guatemala, and Central America, from a foreign and a…
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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 Library
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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- Gotha Research Library
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 Research Library
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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- Gotha Research Library
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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- Gotha Research Library
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…
- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
War Maps
Based on the transmitted collection of maps and the geographical writings of the publisher, this study aims to examine the evolution of cartography under the conditions of war, as well as the…
- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
German East, Polish West
With the Treaty of Versailles and the establishment of Poland, the eastern border of Germany underwent significant changes. Politicians and scholars from both the Second Polish Republic and the…
- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Plants, Maps, Amuletts
The Middle East has been a focal point of colonial projects and theological research since the 19th century. What conceptions regarding environment, space, and cultural history underpinned the…
- Gotha Research Library
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…
- Gotha Research Library
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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- Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection
Cartographic Sources and Territorial Transformations in the Horn of Africa since the Late 18th Century (ETHIOMAP)
The research project comprises two partner projects being carried out simultaneously in France (funded by French National Research Agency) and Germany (funded by German Research Foundation). The…