Carl von Bach, Ferdinand Weinhold and Co. - important scientific estates in Chemnitz
Lecture by the city archive on Wednesday, 10 April, 6 p.m. in the city archive
As part of the series "The City Archive presents", a lecture on "Carl von Bach, Ferdinand Weinhold and Co. - important scientific estates in Chemnitz" will take place on Wednesday, 10 April at 6 pm in the City Archive building. The speaker is the head of the Chemnitz University Archive, Stephan Luther. Admission is free.
The lecture will examine the scholars' estates as an important source in the Chemnitz University Archives. The general question of what additional value such bequests represent for the archives will be explored. To this end, it will of course be explained in principle what ideally belongs in such a bequest.
This will be demonstrated using the extraordinarily extensive estate of Carl Bach as an example. This estate contains an incredibly dense collection of documents ranging from his baptismal record to his will, his school and academic education, his scientific activities as a professor and scholar, and his correspondence spanning 60 years of his life. There are also other important bequests, e.g. from Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold, Eugen Ristenpart, Christian Weißmantel and Johannes Volmer. The archive currently contains a total of 36 bequests and estates of academics.
The lecture will outline the legal framework and guidelines for the future acquisition policy of the University Archive in addition to the content aspects of existing estates.
You can find the City Archive's lecture programme for 2019 HERE