Sites of Knowledge

Contents

  1. A Sermon by Martin Luther on Why Children Should Be Sent to School (1530)
  2. Johannes Sturm, The Correct Opening of Elementary Schools of Letters (1538)
  3. Draft of Stipend Regulations for the University of Wittenberg (1545)
  4. Four Things Bring Ruin to a Mine (c. 1556)
  5. University Treasurer Dr. Peurle Reports on the Work of the Jesuits in Ingolstadt (January 24, 1558)
  6. Philip Galle (after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder), The Alchemist (c. 1558)
  7. Jacob von Rammingen on the Ordering of Registries and Archives (1571)
  8. Philipp Hainhofer, Report on the Eichstätt Garden and the Work on Hortus Eystettensis (1611)
  9. Joseph Arnold, The Kunstkammer of the Dimpfels, a Family of Ironmongers and Traders from Regensburg (1668)
  10. Adam Olearius, Gottorp Cabinet of Curiosities (1674)
  11. From the Chronicle of the Imperial Academy of Natural Scientists [Leopoldina] (1694)
  12. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Memorandum to Dukes Rudolph Augustus and Anton Ulrich, on the Library at Wolfenbüttel (June 1695)
  13. From the Correspondence of the Astronomer and Calendar Maker Gottfried Kirch (1693–1706)
  14. Letter from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to Daniel Ernst Jablonski regarding the Plan to Establish an Academy in Berlin (March 12, 1700)
  15. Ambras Castle, the Archduke’s Pleasure Palace near Innsbruck (c. 1700)
  16. J. D. Gruber, “Well-Conceived Proposal for the Establishment and Construction of a New University within His Royal Majesty’s German Lands” (August 30, 1732)
  17. Portrait of Angelo Soliman (c. 1750)
  18. The Cabinet of Artifacts and Natural Curiosities at the Francke Foundations in Halle
  19. Johann David Köhler, Instructions for Travelling Scholars: Libraries, Coin Cabinets, Antiquities Collections, Picture Galleries, Natural History Collections and Art Collections, Etc., with Useful Information for Viewing (1762)
  20. Academic Rules for Students of the University of Göttingen (1763)
  21. Lending Rules for a Göttingen Library (1769)
  22. Library, Abbey of Schussenried
  23. Johann Bernhard Basedow, Method Book (1770) and Elementary Work (1774)
  24. Johann Bernhard Basedow and Daniel Chodowiecki, Elementary Work (1774)
  25. Engraving of Abraham Gottlob Werner’s Collection of Minerals and Gemstones (1772)
  26. J.G. Büsch, “Treatise on the Ruinous Economic Circumstances of Most Scholars in Our Time” (1774)
  27. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, “About Göttingen’s Academic Museum” (1779)
  28. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger, Journey through Swabia and Bavaria in 1784
  29. Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer, The Dispute between Philanthropinism and Humanism in the Theory of Educational Instruction in our Time (1808)
  30. Wilhelm von Humboldt, “The Königsberg and the Lithuanian School Plan” (1809)
  31. Alexander von Humboldt in the Library of his Berlin Apartment on Oranienburger Straße (1856)
  32. H. Thiel, “Description and Yield Calculation of a Sugar Beet Economy” (1874)
  33. Elephant Ride in the Berlin Zoo (c. 1886)
  34. Robert Koch in his Laboratory (c. 1891)
  35. Collection of Objects from German East Africa in the “Rauhes Haus” in Hamburg-Horn (1892)
  36. Hoechst Company Dyestuff Laboratory (c. 1895)
  37. Historical Dye and Colorant Collection, Technical University of Dresden (c. 1900)
  38. Appeal to Found a Jewish Library and Reading Room, Hamburg (1905)
  39. Catholic Girls’ School, Bavaria (c. 1908-10)
  40. Hospital Staff Performing Surgery (c. 1910)
  41. Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, “The Frankfurt Kitchen and Modern Household Appliances” (1927)
  42. Kurt Sprengel, The Botanical Garden at the University of Halle (1800)
  43. Dr. M. Bach, “The Aquarium” (1868)
  44. Wilhelm Liebknecht, “Knowledge is Power – Power is Knowledge” (February 5, 1872)
  45. Frankfurt Kitchen (1927)
  46. Frankfurt Kitchen (1927)
  47. Oskar von Miller, “Technical Museums as Sites of Popular Instruction” (1929)
  48. Prussian Ministry for Science, Art, and Education, “Necessary Reforms in the Secondary School System” (August 1933)
  49. Herbert Backe, “Farmers in the Fight for Germany’s Food Self-Sufficiency” (1939)
  50. Ringelblum Archive (1939–1943)
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