Some service facilities at the University of Erfurt have changed opening hours during the lecture-free period in February and March 2025. Please take note of this.
Due to an internal event, the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt will not open until 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. We kindly ask you to note this.
Venus as the embodiment of virtue? The promiscuous goddess of love in Greek and Roman mythology rarely evokes such associations. As wife of Vulcan, the god of fire and blacksmithing, she passionately pursued her ever changing erotic desires.
In the late autumn of 1832, a young scholar from Göttingen embarked on a journey to Gotha. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808–1899), who had recently completed his habilitation and was still at the beginning of his academic career, set out to the renowned…
The Gotha Research Library holds an important collection of fragments from early Qur’an manuscripts on parchment that were once preserved in the Mosque of ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ (d. 664), governor of Egypt between 640 and 664. The Mosque was built in Fusṭāṭ,…
Hoodie, coffee mug, bag or lanyard – the University of Erfurt offers numerous merchandising items, whether as small practical helpers for everyday life or as a statement of belonging. These items are now available in our new online shop.
In 2025, national and international authors will have the opportunity to conduct research in the holdings of the Gotha Research Library of the University of Erfurt with financial support. The Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, the…
For the last time this year, the Gotha Research Library of the University invites all interested parties to its "Perthes im Gespräch" series, in which the latest results in the cataloguing, preservation and research of the Gotha Perthes Collection…