Publications
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Über das Leben Raffaels von Urbino - Die Göttinger Vorlesung aus dem Jahr 1841
(2019)
Presenting the previously unpublished lecture notes of ‘Über das Leben Raffaels von Urbino’ by Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley, a lecture series given in spring 1841 at the University of Göttingen, this edition sheds light ...
Motherhood and the Law
(2019)
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood ...
Thinking about Christian Life in the Turmoil Times of the Middle East - Insights and Reflections from East and West
(2020)
"Studies in the Middle East" is a one-year programme at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (NEST). In honour of its 20th anniversary, academics and teachers from the NEST and from Germany met at Georg-August ...
Forschung und Lehre als identitätsstiftendes Ideal
(2018)
How has the university been discussed between scientific mission, study and education since the beginning of the Bologna reform? The study examines this question using 1130 articles published in the weekly newspaper DIE ...
Unionsrechtliche Probleme der Überlassungspflicht für sortenrein erfasste Haushaltsabfälle zur Verwertung - Eine Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der EU-Regelungen für Daseinsvorsorgeleistungen
(2018)
Waste is a commodity, and in particular the separately collected, single-variety waste from private households such as waste paper is a highly coveted commodity that public bodies responsible for waste management, i.e. the ...
Women in Kararau - Gendered Lives, Works, and Knowledge in a Middle Sepik Village, Papua New Guinea
(2019)
The book offers a glimpse back in time to a Middle Sepik society, the Iatmul, first investigated by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the late 1920s while the feminist anthropologist Margaret Mead worked on sex roles ...
European Studies and Europe: Twenty Years of Euroculture
(2020)
In 1998, the Master’s programme Euroculture started with the aim to offer, amid the many existing programmes that focused on European institutional developments, a European studies curriculum that puts the interplay of ...
Dänischwerden und Dänischsein im Landesteil Schleswig - Zugehörigkeiten und Verortungsprozesse
(2020)
Pointing at ambivalences and inconsistencies, contradictory expectations, nationalistic and pragmatic points of view, this study shows parts of the becoming, being and remaining (or not) Danish in Germany. Using qualitative ...
Angewandte Kriminologie – Justizbezogene Forschung - 12. Kriminalwissenschaftliches Kolloquium und Symposium zu Ehren von Jörg-Martin Jehle, 22./23. Juni 2018
(2019)
Am 22. Juni 2018 fand in Göttingen das 12. Kriminalwissenschaftliche Kolloquium, am folgenden Tag das Symposium aus Anlass des Abschieds von Jörg-Martin Jehle statt. Im selben Jahr wurde Jörg-Martin Jehle nach 22 Jahren ...
Forstleute im Widerstand gegen Adolf Hitler - Eine Spurensuche
(2020)
Wer vor hundert Jahren in Deutschland Forstwirtschaft studierte, der kam häufig aus gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen oder entstammte einer Adelsfamilie. Diese jungen Männer fühlten sich in aller Regel den militärischen ...
Das Buch der Bücher
(2004)
The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's ...
Dealing with climate change on small islands: Toward effective and sustainable adaptation
(2019)
Small islands have received growing attention in the context of climate change. Rising sea-levels, intensifying storms, changing rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures force islanders to deal with and adapt to a ...
Comparative Law in a Changing World - Historical Reflections and Future Visions Fünftes Symposium der Juristischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen mit der Yonsei Law School (Seoul)
(2019)
In times of rapidly changing social worlds and an ever more fragile controllability of the law, international legal comparison obtains increasing relevance. Frequently, similar or even identical questions and problems must ...
Pastoralism and Socio-technological Transformations in Northern Benin - Fulani Innovations in Pastoral Migration, Livelihood Diversification and Professional Association
(2017)
Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are ...
Strafbarkeit klimaschädlicher Verhaltensweisen
(2024)
Given the serious consequences an advancing climate change has on both people and the environment, current measures to limit it are increasingly perceived as inadequate. In many places, cases are brought before courts to ...
Onkologie für die Palliativmedizin
(2015)
Über 90% der in der spezialisierten Palliativversorgung betreuten Patienten leiden an einer Krebserkrankung. Sowohl der Impuls einer frühzeitigen, bedürfnisorientierten palliativmedizinischen Mitbehandlung als auch die ...
Soziale Absicherung von Soldaten bei Körperschäden
(2023)
If injured or wounded soldiers suffer permanent physical or psychological limitations, the question of social security arises after leaving active service. This problem has become particularly apparent again with the ...
Rechtliche Probleme der elektronischen Langzeitarchivierung wissenschaftlicher Primärdaten
(2012)
Das Zeitalter der immer weiter fortschreitenden Digitalisierung und die stetige Verbesserung der technischen Rahmenbedingungen bieten Forschungseinrichtung neue Mittel und Wege, ihre gewonnenen Daten zu archivieren und ...
Das arztrechtliche System als Grenze der arbeitsteiligen Medizin
(2013)
Modern medicine is increasingly characterised by the division of labour. Therefore, this process as well as the concepts of delegation and substitution need to be clarified on a juridical basis. Accordingly, this dissertation ...
Transkulturelle Begegnungen
(2016)
Gelehrte Lebensläufe
(2017)
Attend a university? Get married? Graduate? 500 years ago, young men saw themselves already confronted with these questions, however compared to our days, under different social circumstances. Johannes Eck (1486–1543), ...
Mobilität und Zeitgestaltung
(2021)
In recent years, the number of international students and researchers in Germany has been continually increasing. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the university city of Göttingen, Antonie Fuhse asks how early career ...
Risiko und Chance
(2013)
Natural disasters are a challenge for human societies. The young German nation that reacted in the face of the 100-year Rhine flood (1882/83) can be characterized by the key elements of science, technology, economy, ...
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 21/2016
(2018)
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Philosophy of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late ...
Plastidules to Humans - Leopoldo Maggi (1840-1905) and Ernst Haeckel´s naturalist philosophy in the Kingdom of Italy
(2011)
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late ...
Iustitia, Concordia, Pax
(2023)
The early modern period applies to be the age of wars and military conflicts. But every military attack or combat action was followed of a truce or a peace treaty. But how were those changes in state conveyed into society ...
Grundsätze über die Anlagen neuer Sternwarten
(2005)
The Göttingen Observatory, workplace of the famous scholar Carl Friedrich Gauss, is an important architectural monument. In 2005, it has been reconstructed jointly by the Georg-August-University and the Academy of Sciences ...
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 17/2012
(2015)
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late ...
Aller Künste Wissenschaft
(2021)
Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach was a wealthy scion of a Frankfurt patrician family, of hereditary nobility, and the younger brother of Zacharias Conrad (1683-1734), one of the greatest book collectors and manuscript ...
Die Stellung der Frau in der afghanischen Verfassungsordnung im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen islamischem Recht und Völkerrecht
(2014)
After the fall of the Taliban, the new Afghan constitution of 2004 marks a fundamental beginning for the status of women – at least from a normative perspective. Art. 22 of the Afghan constitution contains: “The citizens ...
Vom Verstehen zur Verständigung
(2009)
This volumes deals with the presentations and debates from the guest lecture series on the occasion of the "European Year of Intercultural Dialogue" 2008 at the Göttingen University.
"Ob Dir es sauer wird mit Deiner Nahrung und Ackerwerk, das laß Dich nicht verdrießen, denn Gott hat es also geschaffen"
(2012)
Gottfried Dietrich Wilhelm Berthold (1854-1937) was one the foremost botanists and phycologists at the end of the 19th century. Born and educated in Westphalia, he enrolled at the Georgia Augusta to study plant sciences ...
The cultural context of biodiversity conservation
(2008)
How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies ...
Umstrittene Sammlungen - Vom Umgang mit kolonialem Erbe aus Kamerun in ethnologischen Museen Die Fälle Tange/Schiffschnabel und Ngonnso‘/Schalenträgerfigur in Deutschland und Kamerun
(2019)
How is the handling of contested “objects” from the German colonial era shaped in ethnological Museums in Germany and Cameroon? This ethnographic study connects, for the first time, approaches from ethnology, (international) ...
Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) und seine Schüler
(2016)
Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer, educator, philosopher, and inventor. He was professor of mathematics at Jena University and is considered a key figure in the development of the mathematical ...
Catalogus ad collectionem Materiae Medicae in Academia Georgia Augusta
(2017)
In the attic of the botanical institute of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, a pharmacognostic collection was stored for over sixty years, packed in about 50 boxes: a document of a discipline that was represented ...
World Heritage Angkor and Beyond - Circumstances and Implications of UNESCO Listings in Cambodia
(2011)
Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest ...
Shared History, Urban Landscapes, and Local Arts and Crafts
(2024)
This book explores cultural, social, and economic links between cultural heritage and sustainable community development in an applied heritage conservation programme in Iringa, Tanzania. Based on ethnographic approaches, ...