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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Lessing's beginnings in the philosophy of religion
As early as 1753, in the early phase of his work, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing described religion as a particularly fruitful subject for his writing. As he explained in his early edition of his works, it…
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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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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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Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann - crowned poetess of the early Enlightenment
The Thuringian poet Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (1711-1740) is one of the Poetae Laureati honoured by German universities for her poetry and scholarship. Under what conditions did she live and write,…
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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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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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Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg (1745-1804) between science, politics and secret society activities
The activities of Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg (1745-1804) as a prince of the Age of Enlightenment have so far mostly only been analysed with regard to his regional influence or one of…
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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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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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Institutionalising the Law of Nature and Nations
Das Projekt untersucht die Geschichte der Naturrechtslehre an den drei norddeutschen Universitäten in Kiel, Greifswald und Rostock im Zeitraum von 1648 bis 1806. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, warum, wie…
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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…
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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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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.…