Metadata: Faculty of Arts (Philosophical Faculty)
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:
- Phil. Fak.
- Title:
- Faculty of Arts (Philosophical Faculty)
- Title (official language):
- Philosophische Fakultät
- Creator/accumulator:
- Faculty of Arts (Philosophical Faculty), University of Göttingen
- Date(s):
- 1733/1999
- Date note:
- 1733-20th century
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 86 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains all the files of the Faculty of Arts since the foundation of the university. It includes in general files similar to those of other faculties, especially the Mathematical Faculty which only split from the Faculty of Arts in 1922. Personnel files of Jewish and formerly Jewish but baptised/converted professors and lecturers of the Faculty of Arts are to be expected in this collection, as it is the case with the other faculties, as well as academic activities of these scholars. In addition, as the review of the personnel files of other faculties strongly suggests, it is highly probable that many personnel files include documents about antisemitic racial laws of the Nazis, which led to the dismissal of Jewish scholars, and other cases of antisemitism.
- Archival history:
-
In 1922 the Faculty of Arts was split up. The new Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences started its own archival tradition.
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
- 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 alphabetical card index exists but is not publicly accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2018