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Gastbeitrag von Dr. Eric Schluessel The homeland of the Uyghur people now appears constantly in the news. This region in Northwestern China, called “Xinjiang” in Chinese, is a vast land of mountains, deserts, oases, and grasslands. Its autochthonous majority, known today as Uyghurs, speak a language related to Turkish and mainly practice Islam. Their homeland […]
Gastbeitrag von Katya Knyazeva In summer 1922, the Russian poet Iakov Oksner moved to Berlin. The Russian population of the city, made up mostly from refugees from the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the Civil War, was in the hundreds of thousands. The intellectual life was vigorous; newspaper and book publishing thrived. In autumn 1923, however, pressured […]
Gastbeitrag von Simone Walters The recovery and restitution of over 5,000 music manuscripts that form the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (siglum D‑Bsa) has had a significant impact on music scholarship by providing a wealth of newly available sources and facilitating the identification of previously unknown works and composers. Having been missing for over half a […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Scott Trigg Long before our current scientific understanding of the solar system, astronomers as far back as ancient Babylonia recorded observations of the night sky. In an Earth-centered cosmos, the entirety of the heavens seems to rotate around the stationary Earth in a daily motion of rising and setting. However, by observing […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Sarah M. Griffin The diffusion of mechanical clocks in fourteenth-century Europe introduced new systems of tracking time. Many of these converged in late medieval calendars, which contain details of the yearly cycle that were calculated by astronomical observation and ordered through liturgical routine. During this period, the calendar broke free from its […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Doris Gruber Dieser Beitrag erschien ursprünglich im Bibliotheksmagazin 1/19. Ende 1680 erschien in Regensburg ein Flugblatt, das von einer außergewöhnlichen Geschichte berichtet: Am elften November des Jahres habe in Rom eine Henne ein ‚wunderliches‘ Ei gelegt. Dieses sei insofern besonders, weil die Henne dabei ungeheuer laut gegackert und bis dahin keine Eier […]