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The article focuses on Umberto Eco's legendary library, emphasizing its significance as a repository merging love for books, entertainment, and scholarship, featuring over 35,000 volumes including rare manuscripts and 16th to 19th-century treasures. Topics include the documentary by Davide Ferrario, exploring Eco's library as a cultural and intellectual testament, highlighting Eco's views on knowledge preservation amidst modern challenges like digital information.

The article focuses on Andreas Osiander's influence on Ducal Prussia's confessional frontier in the 16th century, exploring his impact on theological disputes, his role in Albrecht von Hohenzollern's conversion to Lutheranism, and the relationship between Osiander's teachings and Eastern Orthodox beliefs. It mentions studies highlighting Osiander's influence, his use of Eastern Orthodox traditions in shaping Ducal Prussia's confessional landscape remains a largely unexplored in scholarship.

The article is about a former student at KIT, Philipp Pommer, who shares his experiences during his time as a student. He successfully attended lectures and passed exams, earning a total of 53 ECTS credits. He is now studying Mathematics and Computer Science as a scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation. Pommer invested about ten hours per week in his studies and still had no problems with his grades in school. KIT offers additional support for student students, and Pommer plans to study Mathematics and Computer Science in a parallel degree program. [Extracted from the article]

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The University of Duisburg-Essen offers targeted advice for professionally qualified individuals who wish to study without a high school diploma. The advice covers topics such as entrance exams, study orientation, study financing, and balancing family, work, and studies. The university has established a central advisory center and offers telephone and Zoom consultations. There are also qualification and group programs available to fill knowledge gaps and address personal uncertainties. Study financing is also an important topic, and information is provided on BAföG regulations and scholarships. It is suggested to introduce a centralized entrance exam to facilitate exam preparation. [Extracted from the article]

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The JADE Congress Report on the WONCA World Conference 2023 reports on the participation of Johannes Gorkotte and Fabian Dupont, members of JADE (Young General Medicine Germany), at the conference in Sydney. The conference was held under the theme "Recovery, reconnection and revival. A celebration of primary care" and was hosted by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). There were numerous contributions on education and training, as well as diverse opportunities for collegial exchange. The South African delegation was particularly well represented, and Cape Town was chosen as the venue for WONCA in 2027. DEGAM regularly supports the participation of young general practitioners in international conferences through scholarships. [Extracted from the article]

This year's conference of the Franz Werfel scholarship holders in Vienna focused on the topic of multilingualism in contemporary German-language literature. The conference examined the development of multilingualism in Austrian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day and discussed various concepts and effects of multilingualism on authors and their works. The contributions dealt, among other things, with the use of foreign languages, dialects, and quotations in literary texts, multilingualism in author biographies, variations of the German language in literary works, and the function of multilingualism in contemporary Austrian literature. The conference concluded with a reading by Serbian-Austrian author Barbi Markovič. [Extracted from the article]

The study deals with Hans Sedlmayr’s book Über Michelangelo. Versuch über die Ursprünge seiner Kunst [On Michelangelo. An Essay in the Origins of his Art] from 1940 and demonstrates that it had been influenced by Max Dvořák’s art-historical scholarship emerging around 1920. Sedlmayr’s book on Michelangelo has been so far neglected in the research of his art-historical scholarship, except for some general statements about the writing this book as means of his coming to terms with the death of his parents and his first wife . Owing to this omission, the way how the scholar dealt with the legacy of Max Dvořák’s late art historical thinking has been overlooked, even though the latter’s studies are the crucial reference for Sedlmayr’s understanding of Michelangelo’s art, which Sedlmayr interpreted in 1940 as tragic, closely to how Dvořák had understood Michelangelo’s art as the source for the art of Mannerism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Order is not half of life but the whole of life. This is, in a nutshell, one of the few undisputed aspects in the scholarship on Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben (1855), an aspect that concerns both the text’s programmatic ideology and its form. This essay argues that Freytag’s omnipresent will to order depends on abundance on three levels. First, the novel grants a central role to streams, rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans, whose elemental violence serves as a basis for economic life. Second, this water motif of abundance is linked to rhetorical techniques of abundance (abundantia). And third, these techniques become emancipated from their vehicle by being transferred to the tenor of the economy such that the water motif and the economic principle interact semantically. Agamben’s concept of economy serves as a theoretical basis for examining the three levels of abundance in Soll und Haben because his concept connects rhetoric and order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent scholarship has shown that Adalbert Stifter’s prose tips over exactly where it pretends to be “realistic.” Meticulously describing reality, it presents itself as closely connected to it. However, in a kind of short circuit between word and world (Geulen), it actually discloses that which evades language. According to this reading, Stifter’s realism constitutes itself against the backdrop of the impossibility of seizing the real (Koschorke). In a close reading of Ein Gang durch die Katakomben (1844), I will show how Stifter’s prose paradoxically adheres to the real by way of an emphatic objection to the “withdrawal of reality.” The same move can also be traced in his Nachsommer (1857), where the characters constantly engage in negotiations on how they would shape that very reality that escapes them. In these conversations, politics and aesthetics coalesce in a way that can be illuminated with the aid of Hannah Arendt’s way of linking political action and speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that "In New Testament scholarship, innovation is a sign of a lack of erudition" attributed to the Berlin New Testament scholar Rainer Kampling expresses a skepticism about innovation that is well known in the guild. Topics include examines that is it possible to talk about the almost ridiculously small core subject Exegesis, which is being studied with the greatest passion by a host of highly specialized and extremely competent interpreters.

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»[W]hile one can do nothing about choosing one’s relatives, one can, as artist, choose one’s ›ancestors‹.« These words lead to the heart of a dispute between Ralph Ellison and the Dissent editor Irving Howe in the early sixties which had an impact far beyond literary criticism and scholarship. From this well documented controversy we can learn something about both the power of attributions of belonging and the art of evading them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this commentary, I seek to join the ongoing conversation about evidence-informed educational practice that has been threaded through this special issue. I do so by drawing on related insights from the fields of teachers' beliefs and epistemic cognition and considering the roles of teacher education and educational research in improving (preservice) teachers' use of educational research. In particular, I focus on the merits of explicit research-based practice in teacher educators' teaching and ways that they can encourage preservice teachers' interactions with educational research in class, and methods of changing the beliefs that may underlie (preservice) teachers' engagement with educational research evidence, and finally, the need for clearly communicated research, including details of implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflections on the relationship between historical research and archival sources belong to fundamental conceptions of modern historical scholarship. While editions, for example, have long been recognised to mediate the interaction between historian and source, the crucial role of source indices has yet to be considered fully. The present article shows, by means of a detailed case study, the massive influence archival indices can exercise on historical research. The study is based on the indexing of the charters of Gandersheim monastery by the Wolfenbüttel archivist Hans Goetting during the 1940s and 1950s, who produced registers in the course of his ground-breaking research on Gandersheim. As one would expect from a historian-archivist, his indices and his research proved to be mutually supporting activities. Although the present article aims primarily to highlight the historical and scholarly relevance of archival indices, it also attempts an initial assessment of Hans Goetting's work as a historian and archivist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Influenced by the Italian early Enlightenment and the stimulating intellectual sphere provided by the Italian academy movement, the first learned society founded in Innsbruck was the Societas Silentiariorum, in 1738. After publishing its official statutes in 1741, it was renamed the Societas academica litteraria or Academia Taxiana. The Taxiana soon turned into one of the main standard-bearers of Enlightenment thought in North Tyrol. In particular, members engaged with and discussed historical topics, methods, traditions and texts that were otherwise ignored or unheard of at the University of Innsbruck and other educational institutions at the time, but which would eventually lead to our modern 'science of history'. The Taxianas first official meeting, held in January 1741, set the tone in exemplary fashion for its Enlightenment mission and the renewal of historical scholarship in Tyrol along enlightened principles, as Paul Joseph Riegger and Adrian Kemter took the stage to give the academy's first historiographical speeches (dissertationes). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, science diplomacy has become a hot topic in international affairs, and is now also emerging as one of the most vibrant subfields within International History. This article examines newer historical research that addresses the history of science diplomacy or offers fruitful avenues for such a history. The review identifies three broader trends in current scholarship: a focus on universities and foundations as transnational actors of science diplomacy, a shift of interest towards the ways transnational flows of knowledge were organized and managed politically during the Cold War, and an increasing overlap of global environmental history with the histories of science and knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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