Herzog Ernst and Hiob Ludolf Fellowships

The Herzog Ernst and Hiob Ludolf research grants at the Gotha Research Library and the Gotha Research Centre as well as at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection of the University of Erfurt promote academic study of the library's holdings and the associated historical collections of the Justus Perthes Publishing House. In addition, the holdings of the Thuringian State Archives - Gotha State Archives and the Friedenstein Foundation Gotha can also be included in the research.

The focus of the programme is on:

• The ducal court in Gotha as an example for European court culture
• History of science and cultures of knowledge as global history, history of transfer, and entangled history, 16th to 20th century
• History of European literature, particularly 16th to early 19th century
• History of publishing and book trade
• Early Modern and 19th-century study of Classical religions, history of Protestantism, and Islam
• Philosophy and history of the German and European Enlightenment
• Heterodoxy, dissidence and subversion
• History of the humanities, e.g., numismatics, oriental studies, philologies
• History of natural science, e.g. alchemy, astronomy and botany
• History of spatially oriented disciplines, 16th to 20th century, e.g. ethnology, geology, geography, and statistics
• History of cartography and colonial history, cartography and politics
• History of ego-documents in a global context
• History of objects and the historical study of material culture
• Collection and museum studies

Herzog Ernst doctoral scholarships (€ 1,500 per month, for 1 to 9 months) and Herzog Ernst post-doctoral scholarships (€ 2,000 per month, for 1 to 6 months) are awarded. Senior scholars are invited to apply for a Hiob Ludolf Fellowship (reimbursement of travel and accommodation costs up to € 1,500 per month, for 1 to 2 months). For scholarship holders with children, a family allowance of € 100 per month is granted.

The programme is funded by the Ernst Abbe Foundation.

For further information, please visit the Gotha Research Centre's website.