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    #27 Rätsel Nr.1 – Die Dinge der Herzog August Bibliothek

    Im Gespräch mit Dr. Elizabeth Harding

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    EDIKILEX

    Edition, Künstliche Intelligenz und Lexikographie - Interdisziplinäre Zugänge und digitale Methoden im Umgang mit frühneuhochdeutschen Texten

    Ziel ist ein KI-System, welches Texte der frühneuhochdeutschen Zeit (ca. 1350-1650) so erschließt, dass sie für Forschung und Lehre wesentlich zugänglicher und vergleichbarer werden.

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  • Culture

    In search of Gotthold & Eva

    A digital paper chase through the exhibition ‘Lessing’s life and work in Wolfenbüttel’

    Visitors are invited to explore the Lessinghaus in a light-hearted way together with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Eva König. The route is packed with tasks and puzzles that explore the exhibition’s key themes in more detail and must be solved using the Actionbound app.

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    A testimony to ecclesiastical natural history and an archive of historical biodiversity

    The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the HAB

    The project aims to digitise and produce an in-depth catalogue of the Herbarium Ruperti, coupled with an analysis of its cultural history and its place within the history of science. This unique three-volume collection of herbaria from the early modern period was created around 1700 by a pietist theologian and presents some 1,300 dried plants from what is now Lower Saxony.

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    HAB-Repository

    The institutional publication platform of the Herzog August Bibliothek

    The new Herzog August Bibliothek online platform for publications is launching in style with unlimited free access to forty retro-digitised works that were brought out by the library’s own publishing arm. Further existing scholarly publications – which have previously appeared in print – and research data will be added on a rolling basis.

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    HAB gehört

    The podcast of the Herzog August Bibliothek

    The Herzog August Bibliothek has many faces – both literally and figuratively. In HAB gehört we spotlight them, allowing you to take a closer look at the wide range of content HAB has to offer.

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Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

Independent Research Institute for European Cultural History

The Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) is one of the world's leading research institutions for cultural history. It is the library that provides the basis for this, preserving, cataloguing, expanding and presenting unique holdings. Scholars from all over the world find optimal conditions for their research here.

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Research

The HAB is one of the leading international research centres for the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. It is a place of scholarly dialogue and interdisciplinary cooperation.

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Library

The collection of manuscripts and books of Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Lüneburg forms the core of the Wolfenbüttel Research Library, along with a large number of other collections.

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Culture

With exhibitions, guided tours, workshops, lectures, concerts and readings, the HAB offers a diverse cultural programme.

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Current Projects

 

The historical holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek form a collection of European culture from the Early Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and beyond that is unique in breadth and depth. Manuscripts, incunabula and prints as well as graphics and paintings, maps and modern artists' books offer a variety of starting points for cataloguing, editing and research projects. The proven hermeneutic approaches of the humanities are complemented and supported by innovative methods of the digital humanities. In addition to publication in print, new forms of digital publishing are being tested to secure the scholarly results.

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Fellowship Programmes

 

The scholarship programme of the Herzog August Bibliothek has existed for over 50 years and offers funding opportunities for applicants at all stages of their academic career, from doctoral candidates to emeritus professors. The core condition for funding, which is discussed in various selection committees, is the centrality of the Wolfenbüttel holdings for the development of the respective project. All programmes are international and interdisciplinary.

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Current Exhibitions

 

Globes and old maps are on permanent display in the museum of the Bibliotheca Augusta. An exhibition on the "Life and Work of Lessing in Wolfenbüttel" is set up in the Lessinghaus. In addition, the HAB regularly presents special exhibitions in which research results and collections are vividly presented and made accessible to the public. Exhibitions of works by modern or contemporary artists, many of whom are also represented in the collection of the Wolfenbüttel Library, are held in the Malerbuchsaal.

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Current Publications

 

Monographs, anthologies, exhibition and collection catalogues contain the results of research and cataloguing at the HAB. The variety of topics is as extensive as the scientific activities of the HAB itself. About 250 titles are currently available.

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