Die zahlreichen philosophischen, theologischen und homiletischen Schriften des sächsischen Pfarrers Valentin Weigel (1533-1588) zirkulierten zunächst handschriftlich und wurden - zu einem Teil - erst zu Beginn und am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts gedruckt. Auf der Grundlage einer lutherisch-reformatorischen Frömmigkeit vereinen sie unter anderem neuplatonische und mittelalterlich-mystische Einflüsse...
From 2012 to 2025, the project explores the beginning and end of the Roman era in the central Alpine region. Through excavation projects in Pfaffenhofen (North Tyrol) and San Martino/San Silvestro (Trentino), the project opens up new archaeological source material from two important transitional periods. In Pfaffenhofen-Hörtenberg, the largest Iron Age settlement in North Tyrol is being...
Together with the Walther Meissner Institute (WMI), the Commission for Cryogenic Research operates an internationally important centre for cryogenic research and technology, which forms the nucleus for numerous scientific and technical developments.
Max Reger (1873-1916) has left us, both in terms of expansiveness and complexity, with a monumental oeuvre. Apart from operas, his works encompasses all contemporaneous genres – chamber music, piano compositions, choirs, orchestral pieces and choir symphonies. Especially remarkable are, for a designated pioneer of new music, his work with organs as well as his revisions of other composers’ works,...
In China, in the oasis cities of the Kuča a region on the northern Silk Road, you can find an impressive number of Buddhist wall paintings from the 5th to 8th centuries. These are now for the first time fully accessible, documented and scientifically evaluated. Staff members of the research project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig record all the paintings of this region...
The project aims at an in-depth analysis and presentation of the scientific relations between Germany and the Russian Empire in chemistry, pharmacy, and medicine in the 19th century. Such a scientific study is not yet available. The research of german-russian scientific relations for the given period will provide insights into the development of science in Germany and Russia at that time as well...
In view of outdated Russian-German standard works, for which there will be no replacement in the foreseeable future here, as in Russia, as well as the normative character of previous bilingual Russian dictionaries, the Russian-German dictionary represents a desideratum of great cultural-political significance. The task is to create a complete dictionary on a new and philologically reliable basis,...
The meaning of Old Uyghur or Old Turkish is comparable to Latin in the Romanic languages. However, a state-of-the-art dictionary of this language does not yet exist. But since January 1, 2017, a research project under the supervision of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences has begun to create a dictionary of Old-Uigurian /Old-Turkish.
The Turkish people of today’s Uyghurs are not in a position to...
Ziel des zu Beginn des Jahres 2000 eingerichteten und für 15 Jahre geplanten Projektes ist die Charakterisierung endokriner Abläufe unter chronobiologischem Aspekt, wobei der Einfluss pinealen Melatonins auf Sekretionsrhythmik und Signaltransduktionsprozesse der Langerhansschen Insel im Zentrum der Untersuchungen steht. Voraussetzung für die Projektgenehmigung waren in-vitro-Befunde, durch die...