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[Translate to English:] Luther als Mönch

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"Coined history" The Gotha Numismatic Collection

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2. October 2026

A very warm welcome to the smartest night of the year!

It’s set to be another exciting event: on Friday 6 November, from 6 pm, the City of Erfurt, together with other partners, is hosting the smartest night of the year, and of course the University of Erfurt will be taking part too. Once again, as part…

30. September 2026

Gotha Manuscript Talks start a new round

We encounter manuscripts in various academic fields, in philology, history, art history, theology and religious studies, library and museum studies, translation and translation research, even in the natural sciences (e.g. radiocarbon dating) and in…

15. September 2026

Numismatics Colloquium: Numismatik und Münzkabinette im Spiegel der Jahrhunderte

From 8 to 10 October 2026, an international colloquium at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt will focus on the history, significance and future of numismatics and its collections. The focus will be, amongst other things, on court…

18. August 2026

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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