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2022-03-29

9 x FactGrid, Coffee Talk Serie an der Universität Erfurt, 14. April – 16. Juni 2022, Donnerstags 13:30

Die Universität Erfurt lud uns ein, im kommenden Sommersemester eine online Coffee-Talk Serie zum FactGrid als kollaborativer Forschungsplattform zu veranstalten. Neun Themenschwerpunkte haben wir ausgesucht. Die Veranstaltungen sollen kurz und für die Mittagspause zum Hineinschnuppern gemacht sein. Lassen Sie sich inspirieren. Wir bieten eine 15minütige Erkundung mit jeweils offener Fragerunde. Das Link zur Veranstaltung erhalten…

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2022-03-21

Twenty years on tour: The Velten Theatre Company’s journeys from 1693 to 1712

This may come as a postscript to the previous or as a sneak preview of upcoming projects that will deal with theatre and its history. An interesting topic with all the networks of actors knitting their personal ties in ever changing ensembles of travelling companies that visit cities and courts, of emerging houses with standing…

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2022-02-04

How to map itineraries on FactGrid — and Robinson Crusoe’s eight voyages

William Taylor’s typesetter stumbled over the date which Robinson Crusoe’s manuscript was spelling out for his page 46: 1659, “the same Day eight Year that I went from my Father and Mother at Hull“. Either this was a mistake or he had been wrong with the date that was now stated on page 7. There…

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2021-11-16

2 PhD positions in early modern history, 18th and 19th centuries at the University of Friborg, Switzerland

A collaboration involving FactGrid as the project ressource, the following scholarship announcement in French, English and German: 2 postes de doctorant-e en histoire moderne, XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) Le Département d’histoire de l’Université de Fribourg met en concours deux postes de doctorant-e-s en histoire moderne (4 ans, 100%) à partir du 1er mars 2022.…

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2021-11-14

Paris to download

PARIS TO DOWNLOAD comes with a double purpose: it is first designed to provide a dataset for historians to download with one simple click. Click the image below and a SPARQL query will bring the addresses of Paris c. 1830 onto a modern map. Paris to download (click on the map) / link for the…

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2021-11-12

(Still not yet) all the members of the Strict Observance

FactGrid began in 2018 with the input of Hermann Schüttler’s list of 1,351 (verified and unverified) members of the Illuminati, our Items Q25 to Q1376. Items Q249748 to Q250919 widen that list with an interesting overlap of 111 names with the members of the Strict Observance. It was the largest and most widespread Freemasonic umbrella…

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2021-05-30

PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept

We are very pleased to announce a pilot project funded by the U.S. federal government’s National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH): “PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept.” It will begin June 1, 2021. and end May 30, 2022 and will be hosted by FactGrid. The project is focused…

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2021-05-25

A Quarter of a Million Items on FactGrid – just a brief reflection

Germany’s national author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called it a “masquerade in red and white”, but was himself a member (just as he became a member of the Illuminati a little bit later; it made sense to join such organisations and to know from within what they were all about). Freemasonry was in its most…

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2021-04-24

Die Absolventen des Gothaer Gymnasiums Illustre/ Ernestinum 1524 – 1882

Nach den Pfarrern des Gothaer Territoriums (und ihren Ehefrauen, beidseitigen Eltern, Kindern und deren Ehepartnern – insgesamt gut 15.000 Datenbankobjekten) legt Heino Richard hiermit einen zweiten, quer durch diese Gruppe reichenden Datensatz vor: Die Absolventen des Gymnasiums Illustre Gotha/ Ernestinum. Primär erfasst sind dabei nach den Listen, die Max Scheider und im Nachtrag Ulrich Lutzkat…

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2021-03-24

Die Schopenhauer Gesellschaft 1912-1913 – Ein Forschungsprojekt mit Hilfe des FactGrid

Im Rahmen eines größeren Forschungsprojekts zu deutsch-indischen Kulturbeziehungen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus stellte sich mir wiederholt die Frage, weshalb immer wieder eine bestimmte Gruppe von Künstlern und Schopenhauerenthusiasten eine besondere Neigung zu einer Art „spiritueller Indienverehrung“ zeigten. Alle waren verbunden mit Paul Deussen (1845-1919), dem zentralen Initiator der Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft, gegründet 1911 in Kiel. Die…

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