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    Es genügt, ein Mensch zu heißen.

    Konzert und Lesung

    In dieser besonderen Episode unseres Podcasts präsentieren wir die Aufzeichnung der Abschlussveranstaltung der Reihe „Es genügt, ein Mensch zu heißen“, die am 17. November 2024 in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel stattfand.

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    Fürstliche Verwahrung?

    Familiale Gefangennahmen als Mittel dynastischer Politik

    Brüder nehmen Brüder gefangen, Söhne ihre Mütter und Väter ihre Kinder. Der frühneuzeitliche Adel war nicht zimperlich, wenn es darum ging, aufmüpfige Familienmitglieder in ihre Schranken zu verweisen. Eine familiale Gefangennahme konnte vom kurzen Hausarrest bis zur lebenslangen Haft reichen. Dabei ist dieses Phänomen noch größtenteils unerforscht.

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    Who were Olga and Heinrich Spiero?

    In the course of the project ‘Assets looted by the Nazis among the Herzog August Bibliothek’s acquisitions made between 1933 and 1969’, funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation), a volume that had belonged to Heinrich and Olga Spiero was clearly identified as such an asset and has in the meantime been restituted. What is the story behind this volume and who were the rightful owners?

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  • Research

    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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    Visual expressions of war

    An Interview with Clifton Meador – awardee of the Artists’ Book Prize 2024

    In this episode of "Hab gehört," we are joined by Clifton Meador, the winner of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Curt Mast Jägermeister Stiftung Artists' Book Prize. Clifton Meador, book artist and Professor of Graphic Design and Graphic Communication, shares insights into his captivating project that intertwines art and history.

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    The libraries and scholarly practices of female rulers in the German-speaking lands in the 18th century

    Reconstruction, function and significance

    In recent years, researchers have taken an increasing interest in the female ownership of books. However, there has as yet been no large-scale investigation of the practice and organisation of scholarship amongst women in the 18th century or any study of their literary inclinations and languistic preferences. This project examines approximately 100 documented libraries owned by female rulers in the German-speaking lands during that period.

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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.

Projects

VD 17

The project is part of a master plan for digitising the VD 17 bibliography, which ...

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Fellowship Programmes

 

The scholarship programme of the Herzog August Bibliothek has existed for over 30 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.


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.


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.