Scholarship holders 2026

Pharmacists – Collectors – Naturalists. The collection of natural specimens in the early modern knowledge transfer

"Business Models and Crises" – the economic transformation and success of Perthes Verlag between the post-March era and the Gründerzeit

The History of the Wahûma: A Conceptual Study of an External Description in Flux

Gotha as a Hub: The East Asian Collection and Interiors at Friedenstein Castle – Networks of Collections, Knowledge and Perceptions of China and their Regional Impact

Mapping Ethiopian Slave Trade Routes and Markets: A Focus on Nineteenth-Century Cartography

Geopolitics and border disputes in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea

Stratigraphic Analysis of Early Qur’anic Manuscripts: A Biography of the Collection at the Gotha Research Library

Studying ‘race’ during the German Enlightenment

From Manuscript to Print: Jean Bodin’s *Colloquium Heptaplomeres* and its reception in Germany between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

1. Mapping and poeticisation of German (border) landscapes; 2. Fragile orders. Literary and historical approaches to climate, society and the technical mastery of nature in the 19th century

Diaspora Paratexts: Networks, Topics and Interfaces of Books by Religious Dissidents

Colonial Histories of Cycling in Africa

Klaproth and the circulation of Orientalist knowledge in the Romantic era

The Inviolable Text: Hermeneutical Strategies for Interpreting the Luther Bible in Early Modern Lutheranism 

Chivalry and Mamluk Manuscripts at the Gotha Research Library

Mapping the World from the Margins: Pietro Coppo’s Cosmography in Early Modern Europe

Cartographic collections as image archives? An analysis of the colonial and cartographic discourse surrounding the Cameroon maps in the Gotha Perthes Collection.

The Qing Empire, 1840–1870, as depicted in the maps and manuscripts of the Gotha Perthes Collection

Ecological changes in the Atlantic Rainforest caused by German settler colonialism in southern Brazil, as reflected in emigrants’ letters and maps, 1850–1950

Heinrich Knaust (1520/21–1580) als Übersetzer von Johannes Hagen de Indagine (1415–1475)

[Heinrich Knaust (1520/21–1580) as the translator of Johannes Hagen de Indagine (1415–1475)]

Ein Geschwisterpaar deutscher Theatergeschichte: Mannheim und Gotha im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert

(A pair of cities in German theatre history: Mannheim and Gotha in the late 18th century)

Anthropologie und Ethnologie in Polen 1850-1914. Das Werden einer Disziplin unter besonderen Bedingungen

(Anthropology and Ethnology in Poland, 1850–1914: The Emergence of a Discipline under Unusual Circumstances)

Vaterlandslose Gesellen. Der deutsche Adel und Amerika, 1776-1914

(Vaterlandslose Gesellen: The German Nobility and America, 1776–1914)

Artists, Scientists, and Philosophical Imagery in Galileo’s Europe: printed illustrations in publications by Tycho Brahe and René Descartes

Leibniz’s Chinese Mirror and the Critique of Pufendorf’s Voluntarism

Intellektuelle Begegnungen zwischen Lutheranern und Armeniern. Akademische Studien, religiöse Polemik und politische Interessen (1630–1700)

[Intellectual Encounters between Lutherans and Armenians. Academic Studies, Religious Polemics and Political Interests (1630–1700)]

Hausvogt, Bettenfrau und Scheuerweib – Praktische Haushaltsorganisation und niedere Hofdienerschaft zwischen Alltag und Zeremoniell auf Schloss Friedenstein, Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha 1650 bis 1691

(House steward, bed-maker and scullery maid – Practical household organisation and lower-ranking court servants between everyday life and ceremonial duties at Friedenstein Castle, Duchy of Saxe-Gotha, 1650 to 1691)

Lina Thiede is spending a month in Gotha as part of the Gotha Library Fellowship to carry out research for her new novel, *Dies Irae*. She writes in both the science fiction/fantasy genre and in an autofictional style, and in both areas she focuses primarily on social class divisions and the role of women. She has received several awards for her work, including the hr2 Literature Prize, the Berlin Prize for Science Fiction and, most recently, the Robert Gernhardt Prize from the State of Hesse. Her debut novel *Homo Femininus* was published in 2020, followed in the spring of 2025 by her second novel, *Manchmal weißt du, was geschehen wird*.