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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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„Cembalo-Dynastie“: Aleksandra and Alexander Grychtolik perform Bach at the Friedenstein

Under the title „Cembalo-Dynastie“, the Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt, in collaboration with the Friends of the Research Library, invites you to a public concert in the Hall of Mirrors at Friedenstein Castle on Saturday 12…

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Summer School on the Study of Asian and Middle Eastern Manuscripts

The Gotha Research Library at the University of Erfurt, in collaboration with the University of Nizwa (Oman), is organising a summer school on the study of Asian and Middle Eastern manuscripts from 3 to 5 August 2026. The Arabic-language programme is…

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