Association for University History in Frankfurt (Oder)

Tasks of the development organisation

History of the university

Over the course of roughly 300 years (1506–1811), the old university in Frankfurt (Oder) made its mark on the history of European higher education. Many of its scholars were of supra-regional importance. Nevertheless, large parts of its history remain obscure. The experiences of students and professors, the relationship between the city and the university, and the university’s impact on European cultural history are aspects that still require exploration or reinterpretation.

The Association for the Study of the History of the Viadrina (Förderverein zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Viadrina e.V.) seeks to contribute to addressing the open questions surrounding the history of the university on the Oder. It regularly publishes an annual report, which is available free of charge to its members. This report documents the association’s activities and includes scholarly articles on the history of the university in Frankfurt (Oder).

You can support our work by becoming a member of the association!

 

 

Become a member

To become a member of our association, please complete the declaration of membership and send it by post to our secretary, Felix Töppel.

The annual membership fee is 20 euros for individuals and 50 euros for institutions. Students and pupils pay a reduced fee of 5 euros.

If you would like us to debit the annual fee from your account, please complete the direct debit mandate and send it to the secretary by post.

To the forms

Publications

In cooperation with the Research Centre for Comparative University History at the Chair of Medieval History held by Professor Ulrich Knefelkamp, various projects have been completed and the following publications have appeared:

  • Volume 1: Geschichte(n) von Stadt und Universität: Frankfurt an der Oder und die Viadrina, edited by Felix Töppel and Klaus Weber, Leipzig/Berlin: Edition Kirchhof & Franke, 2023.
  • Volume 2: Urban Dietrich Lüdecke / Samuel Stryk: On Curiosity. Translated by Friedrich Winterhager †, edited by Andreas Bähr, with the collaboration of Andrea Gáldy, Swantje Niemann, Felix Töppel and Julius Twardowsky, Leipzig/Berlin: Edition Kirchhof & Franke [in preparation].

In addition, the FEGV Annual Reports, volumes 1–6, have been published to date (Schöneiche near Berlin, 1998–2011).

  • Andrea Lehmann: Brandenburg-Prussian appointment policy in the early modern period (1640-1740). Initiation of the modern appointment procedure with special consideration of the Faculties of Philosophy at the universities in Frankfurt (Oder), Königsberg, Duisburg and Halle. Diss. phil. Frankfurt (Oder) 2012.
  • Anna Claudia Link: Das Studium der Medizin an der brandenburgisch-preußischen Universität Viadrina während ihrer letzten Frankfurter Phase, Frankfurt (Oder) 2005.
  • Siegbert Rummler: Medical dissertations. A contribution to public health education in Brandenburg-Prussia? Schöneiche b. Berlin 2007.
  • Bernhard Spörlein: The older University of Bamberg (1648-1803). Studies on institutional and social history. 2 vols. Schöneiche b. Berlin 2004.

  • Ulrich Knefelkamp: Frankfurt an der Oder , Universität, in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Hans Dieter Betz , 3rd vol. 4th ed. Tübingen 2000, pp. 217-218.
  • Ulrich Knefelkamp (ed.): "Blütenträume" and "Wolkenkuckucksheim" in "Timbuktu". 10 years of the European University Viadrina 1991-2001, Berlin 2001.
  • Ulrich Knefelkamp (ed.): University and City. Lecture series on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the University of Frankfurt. Schöneiche b. Berlin 2007.
  • Ulrich Knefelkamp: The old Viadrina (1506-1811). A review of its history, outstanding professors and students, in: Pyritz, Richard/Schütt, Matthias (eds.): Die Viadrina. A University as a Bridge between Germany and Poland, Berlin 2009, pp.29-42.
  • Irina Modrow: Why in Frankfurt "anyone who wanted to could do good studies". A short history of the Viadrina, Schöneiche b. Berlin 2006.
  • "Virtuality or reality?. The old Viadrina in the Frankfurt cityscape", ed. Thomas Jaeger and Ulrich Knefelkamp, Frankfurt (Oder) 2006 CD ROM

An extensive, but not complete, bibliography on the history of the old university in Frankfurt (Oder) can be found on the page of the University Archives in the Findbuch on the holdings of the "Old Viadrina", under the heading "Literature".

Contact us

Prof Dr Klaus Weber

Chairman

Prof Dr Andreas Bähr

Deputy Chairman

Felix Töppel

Secretary

Treasurer: Margarete Blömer