Courtly Cultural Areas in Central Germany

As the memorial centre of the former duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg (Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg), the Gotha Research Library preserves an extensive collection of personal occasional writings of the early modern period. Occasional writings belong to a literary genre that is considered to be one of the most productive sources of information on personalities in the early modern period. The aim of the project is to research a source inventory of 7,455 personal occasional writings of the court from the first appearance of humanism until the end of the 18^th century. For this purpose, the sources will be scientifically indexed in a bio-bibliographical database, digitized and presented online. With this project, the Gotha Research Library is participating in the cataloguing of 18^th century literature published in the German-speaking world. Overall, the project sees itself as biographical-bibliographical basic research on a cultural-scientific topography of the Central German cultural area.

Further Information

More about the project "Courtly Cultural Areas" on the website of the Osnabrück University