GRK 510:  Fields of Knowledge. The Formation and Structure of the European Culture of Information

• Subject Area: History
• Term: from 1998 to 2007
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 272687

The research training group is dedicated to multi-disciplinary research on the production, diffusion, and storage of those forms of information and knowledge which shaped the formation and development of early modern culture. Its program supports the work of young researchers and specialists in these fields. Of particular interest is the expansion of writing in its scriptographical and typographical forms during the early modern period and the collection of these forms in medial fields and archives. These aspects of cultural history can be studied in exemplary form through the cultural avant-gardism and extensive collections of the archives and libraries of Augsburg. The Institute for European Cultural History and its research training group serve to support such scholarship.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Universität Augsburg
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Johannes Burkhardt (†)
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Gabriele Bickendorf (†); Professorin Dr. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel; Professor Dr. Karl Filser; Professor Dr. Gunther Gottlieb; Professor Dr. Rolf Kießling; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kuhoff; Professorin Dr. Marion Lausberg; Professor Dr. Thomas M. Scheerer; Professor Dr. Bernhard Schimmelpfennig; Professor Dr. Theo Stammen (†); Professorin Dr. Silvia Serena Tschopp; Professor Dr. Wolfgang E. J. Weber