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
Bruno Hassenstein's Cartography of Japan
The project examines the influence of cartography on German-language Japanology in the late 19th century. So far, the historical development of German-language Japanology has been interpreted with a…
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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…
- Friedenstein Castle Foundation
Provenance and history of the Friedenstein Foundation Gotha's collection of Indonesian skulls
An international team led by Adrian Linder, ethnologist and associated researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, investigated the provenance of a total of 41 human…