Metadata: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Göttingen University Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Universitätsarchiv Göttingen
- Postal address:
- Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Universitätsarchiv Göttingen, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
- Phone number:
- +49 551 39-5309
- Email:
- archiv@sub.uni-goettingen.de
- Reference number:
- Math.-Nat. Fak.
- Title:
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Title (official language):
- Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Creator/accumulator:
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Göttingen
- Date(s):
- 1900/1999
- Date note:
- 20th century
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 136 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Most files of the collection “Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences“ deal with professorships, habilitation and the granting of doctorates. Of special interest to Jewish history are: PhD regulations, e.g. acquisition of the doctorate by Jews of German nationality (no. 204); regulations concerning foreign and "Jewish related" [“jüdisch versippte“] professors (no. 191); censorship of Jewish authors (no. 310); regulation of the "citation of Jewish authors" (no. 190); regulations of "citing Jewish writers" (no. 205); the recall of emigrant lecturers from Göttingen (Siegel, Goldschmidt, Franck, Courant, Born) (no. 277); as well as many personnel files of Jewish and formerly Jewish professors and lecturers of the Faculty.
- Archival history:
-
After long-lasting disputes within the Faculty of Arts the faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences split off in 1922. Accordingly, a separate archive collection exists from this year onwards.
As an old registry of the university administration the archive has existed since 1772, as a historical university archive since 1925. The first university archivist, who was appointed with the merger, was Götz von Selle. He directed the archive as an honorary professor until 1956. Since 1986 the archive has been run by a full-time member of staff. Since 2017, it has been fully integrated into the SUB Göttingen.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The University of Göttingen was founded at the instigation of the sovereign Kurfürst Georg August of Hannover, as George II at the same time King of Great Britain (personal union since 1714), after whom the university was also named. In 1734, the university began teaching, the official inauguration followed in 1737. The Göttingen Academy of Sciences, founded in 1751, played a major role in the rise of Göttingen to become a scientific centre of European importance. During National Socialist rule the university's Jewish professors and lecturers - including world-famous scholars such as Max Born, James Franck and Emmy Noether - were dismissed and exiled. After the Second World War the Georgia Augusta was the first German university to begin teaching again, on 17 September 1945, with the permission of the British occupying forces.
- Access points: locations:
- Göttingen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Max
- Behmann, Heinrich
- Bernays, Paul
- Bernstein, Felix
- Born, Max
- Courant, Richard
- Ehlers, Ernst
- Fleischmann, Wilhelm
- Franck, James
- Goldschmidt, Moritz
- Hartmann, Johannes
- Heitler, Walter
- Hertz, Paul
- Hilbert, David
- Hohenemser, Kurt
- Kuhn, Heinrich
- Lewy, Hans
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mügge, Otto
- Müller, Gottfried Elias
- Nádai, Arpad
- Noether, Emmy
- Nordheim, Lothar
- Prager, Willy
- Runge, Carl
- Seelhorst, Konrad von
- Siegel, Carl
- Valentiner, Justus
- Voigt, Woldemar
- Weyl, Hermann
- Wiechert, Emil
- System of arrangement:
- The holdings of the Göttingen University Archive are mostly organised according to the institutional provenance of the material (faculties, administrative bodies, university court, etc.) and is therefore separated by institution. Within each file the system of arrangement can vary between chronological and thematical organisation.
- Access, restrictions:
- No access restrictions, but data protection regulations apply.
- Finding aids:
- An online database (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid (available as ebook): Martin Fimpel, Spezialinventar zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften an der Universität Göttingen von 1880-1933. Ein Führer zu den archivalischen Quellen. With Detlef Busse et al. Göttingen: Universitätsarchiv 2002 (Schriften des Universitätsarchivs Göttingen, 1).
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2018