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Teaching support fund launched at the University of Erfurt: Innovative teaching projects wanted

For the first time, the University of Erfurt is launching a teaching support fund to support innovative teaching projects with up to 2,500 euros in order to specifically strengthen the quality of teaching.

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"Coburg | Gotha | 1826 – Ein Herzog. Zwei Residenzen.": Exhibition on the change of dynasty 200 years ago

200 years ago, the Ernestine duchies were reorganised and the Dual Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was created. Under the title "Coburg | Gotha | 1826" – Ein Herzog. Zwei Residenzen." in 2026, several exhibitions at various locations in Gotha and…

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New research project "Perthes colonial" launched

The three-year project "Perthes kolonial" has been launched at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Gotha Perthes Collection, for which the two Erfurt-based historians, Professor Iris Schröder and Professor Christiane Kuller, secured third-party…

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Gotha Perthes Collection once again becomes a training camp for the German national team

The 22nd International Geography Olympiad will take place in Istanbul from 11 to 17 August 2026. Germany will also be competing with a team of four. And it will once again be travelling to Gotha for a training camp in March.

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The afterlife of the Enlightenment – continuities and networks between the late 18th and early 19th centuries

"The Afterlife of the Enlightenment" is the title of a conference being held in Gotha on 26 and 27 March by the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt together with the Research Training Group (DFG) "Politics of the Enlightenment" at…

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New publication: Der Rezipient ist im Werk

Franz Steiner has published an anthology entitled "Der Rezipient ist im Werk. Differenzerfahrung und Adressatenbezug in Reisedarstellungen des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts", an anthology on late medieval and early modern travel accounts by Monika E. Müller…

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New publication: Radikaler Pietismus, Alchemie und Freidenkerei 1729–1741

Franz Steiner Verlag has published a new book entitled "Radikaler Pietismus, Alchemie und Freidenkerei 1729–1741" by Vera Faßhauer and Martin Mulsow.

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Publication "Verhandeltes Zeremoniell" published

Böhlau Verlag has published a book by Marian Hefter entitled "Verhandeltes Zeremoniell" (Negotiated Ceremonial), which uses the archival records of the Gotha ducal court to examine the significance of ceremonial norms at imperial courts in the second…

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