Vortrag im Saal des FZG während des Frühneuzeittags Workshop in Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedenstein Stiftung Gotha New HES-fellows and members of Gotha research campus standing on the steps at Schloßberg

Gotha Research Centre

History of Knowledge

Have a look at 20 years of research activities!

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PhD positions at the “Politics of the Enlightenment” Research Training Group in Halle

The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg has advertised the positions of 5 more doctoral candidates for the DFG-funded Research Training Group ‘Politics of the Enlightenment’ at the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA). The call closes on 25 October 2026, positions will start on 1 April 2027.

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News

Changed opening hours during the lecture-free period

Please note: Some of the University of Erfurt’s learning and support services have altered opening hours or are closed during the lecture-free period.

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Changes to the opening hours of the Gotha Research Library

Due to internal events, the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt is changing its opening hours at its Friedenstein Castle and Perthes Forum sites:

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Married, cast out, banished: divorced women of the high nobility, 1600–1850

The Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, in collaboration with the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, is hosting a conference from 28 to 30 September entitled "Verheiratet, verstoßen, verbannt" (Married, Rejected, Banished), which…

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From hagiographies to contemporary literature: Lina Thiede awarded the Gotha Library Fellowship

The Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt has always been a place where knowledge is gathered and history is researched. Historians, theologians and philologists usually make up the majority of those who engage with the library’s rich…

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Events

02
Sept
Guided tour: "Bücher – Wissen – Wandel"
CG1 – Gotha Research Library (Friedenstein Castle Gotha)
12
Sept
The Harpsichord Dynasty – Works by J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, and improvisations
CG1 – Gotha Research Library, Spiegelsaal (Friedenstein Castle Gotha)
18
Sept
19
Sept
"Die Zeit der entfesselten Phantasie". Literarische Laboratorien und Wunderkammern um 1900
Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wrocław
28
Sept
30
Sept
Verheiratet, verstoßen, verbannt. Geschiedene hochadelige Frauen 1600–1850
CG3 –Gotha Research Centre (Schloßberg 2, Gotha)
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