Online publication Archive Treasure of the Month Between 2007 and 2018, the Document Collection of the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (DSHI) presented each month a particularly attractive or interesting archival document of general historical or political significance, as well as personal documents or...
Publication project Baltic Enlightenment The project focuses on the ambivalences and asymmetries of the Enlightenment using the example of the historical Baltic States (Estonia, Livonia, Courland). In cooperation with the University of Tartu and other partners from the Baltic States and Germany, three volumes are being prepared, with the...
Holding Complete collection of research materials of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association is home to an extensive and diverse range of collections relating to East Central Europe, including a library with a music and press collection together with an image archive and a document and...
Handbook project | Indexing project Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in the Baltic Countries, Volume 1: Estonia / Eesti Established by Georg Dehio in 1905, the “Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments” is a print reference work and travel guide that concisely conveys local and urban history and provides key facts and descriptions of a representative selection of buildings and their interiors in specific regions...
Editing project Edition of the Livonian Civil Defense Reports, 1905–1906 During the period of the first revolutionary unrest in the Russian Empire, riots and violent attacks also broke out in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia in 1905–1906. One of the main targets was the large estates owned by German-Baltic landowners. To counter the revolutionary unrest,...
Background Article Flirting on the ice By the 19th century, ice skating had developed into a fashionable pastime for the upper classes. The skating rink became an important public space, where social hierarchies, moral values and notions of gender manifested themselves. In the Baltic states too, skating was an integral part of the lives of the German population, as numerous memoirs attest. But why did it play such an important role for people during their years of childhood and coming-of-age to the extent that it would later feature so prominently in their memoirs?
Herder Fellowship for doctoral candidates and postdocs A scholarship for intensive source research in the scientific collections of the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe, an institute of the Leibniz Association.
Research fellowship | Support of conferences Herder Fellowship for experts in historical research on East Central Europe A research fellowship for proven experts who can carry out their research project for up to three months directly at the Herder Institute for Research on Eastern Central Europe in Marburg.
Scientific infrastructure facility | Research institute Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe The Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association (HI) is one of the central non-university infrastructure and research institutions for historical research on East Central Europe in Germany.
Travelling exhibition Old Dorpat in 1889 The exhibition displays originals and enlarged replicas from the portfolio ‘Memories of Dorpat 1889’. These visual testimonies bring the shared German-Estonian past to life.
Background Article On the Road to the “New Eastern Lands” During the First World War, the German Empire had far-reaching plans for expansion in Eastern Europe. The Baltic states in particular were destined to become a German settlement colony known as the “Neues Ostland” (new eastern lands). With hindsight, some of these plans appear as forerunners of National Socialist conquest policy.
Online finding aid Online search aid of the Document Collection at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe The online search aid of the Document Collection (DSHI) at the Marburg Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe is the starting point for research in the holdings of the most important archive on the history of the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia in the German-speaking...
Research project Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century (SOL) The SOL project investigates how land redistribution has shaped societies in the Baltic region. By reconstructing the effects of land reform, collectivisation and privatisation on subjectivities, SOL bridges the deep divides in the region's history.
Travelling exhibition The Life of the Baltic Nobility Magnificent chandeliers, ornamental stuccoed ceilings, and salons filled with music – was aristocratic life in the Baltic really so splendid?
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