The educational center and scientific institution “Herder Institute in Riga” (HI) was a university whose history (1921-1939) and contribution to the genesis of modern science have an important place in the context of Latvia, Europe and the world. HeInRi is a project focusing on HI in the European Science Network.
Since December 2020, the University of Latvia has been implementing the individual project application of the Latvian Science Council in the open competition program “Provision of funding for scientific excellence and performance of scientific institutions to strengthen research specialization, excellence and influence – to implement a unified academic and scientific career system reform and increase the role of science and innovation”. project “Institutum Herderianum Rigense: Herder Institute in Riga as a science network in the European Science Network” (LZP registration number lzp-2020 / 2-0083, LU registration No. LZP2020 / 9). The project focuses on the educational center and scientific institution – the Herder Institute in Riga (HI), whose history (1921-1939) and contribution to the genesis of modern science have not been properly studied so far in Latvia or in the world. Among the correspondents of HI, founded by the Riga Herder Society, were such scientists as M. Planks, J. J. von Ikskils, V. Nernsts, and others. The aim of the project is to study HI as a surprisingly well-organized science network in a triple sense.
The aim is to explore:
All these aspects of HI scientific networking, with their research perspective, have not been studied in depth in this turn. In order to arouse a wider and special interest in the scientific heritage of HI, as well as in the intellectual contribution of the Baltic Germans to culture and science, the project envisages digitization of the most important scientific correspondence samples by adding metadata. This will provide a new and innovative insight into the richness, specificity and meaning of HI materials in the genesis of modern science.
Ludwig Klages’s visit to Riga (1955) during his lecture trip in the Nordic countries did not let indifferent either his listeners in the House of the Blackheads or his readers in Latvia. In his reflections about the trip and observations during it, the German Baltic perspective was dominant, the one
After his lecture trip in 1924 to the Baltic countries, Oswald Spengler receives a letter, dated by the 6th of February, 1925, from the Great Guild in which, among other things, in the name of the Herders Society is expressed the regret about some statements during the discussions and private
On the 8th of January, 1926 a student of Germanist and medievalist Eduard Sievers (1850-1932), Germanist and language researcher Walther V. K. Ziesemer (1882-1951) sends a letter to professor Vulfius. Referring to the correspondence and the agreement with Dr Masing and HI rector Klumberg, Ziesemer announces his lecture plan in
The Baltic region was not unknown to Oswald Spengler long before his trip in 1924 through the Baltic States: while studying in Halle there were two students from Tallinn in his fried cycle; at the beginning of the First world war his sister’s husband Fritz Konhard, shortly after conscription in
On the 4th of December, 1927 the former chairman of the Herders Society in Riga, lawyer Paul Ernst Emil von Sokolowski (1860-1934) sends a letter to Oswald Spengler in which he draws attention to the political situation in the Baltic region at that time. Among other things, this letter is
Since December 2020, the University of Latvia has been implementing the individual project application of the Latvian Science Council in the open competition program “Provision of funding for scientific excellence and performance of scientific institutions to strengthen research specialization, excellence and influence – to implement a unified academic and scientific career system reform and increase the role of science and innovation”. project “Institutum Herderianum Rigense: Herder Institute in Riga as a science network in the European Science Network” (LZP registration number lzp-2020 / 2-0083, LU registration No. LZP2020 / 9). The project focuses on the educational center and scientific institution – the Herder Institute in Riga (HI), whose history (1921-1939) and contribution to the genesis of modern science have not been properly studied so far in Latvia or in the world. Among the correspondents of HI, founded by the Riga Herder Society, were such scientists as M. Planks, J. J. von Ikskils, V. Nernsts, and others. The aim of the project is to study HI as a surprisingly well-organized science network in a triple sense.
The aim is to explore:
All these aspects of HI scientific networking, with their research perspective, have not been studied in depth in this turn. In order to arouse a wider and special interest in the scientific heritage of HI, as well as in the intellectual contribution of the Baltic Germans to culture and science, the project envisages digitization of the most important scientific correspondence samples by adding metadata. This will provide a new and innovative insight into the richness, specificity and meaning of HI materials in the genesis of modern science.
Ludwig Klages’s visit to Riga (1955) during his lecture trip in the Nordic countries did not let indifferent either his listeners in the House of the Blackheads or his readers in Latvia. In his reflections about the trip and observations during it, the German Baltic perspective was dominant, the one
After his lecture trip in 1924 to the Baltic countries, Oswald Spengler receives a letter, dated by the 6th of February, 1925, from the Great Guild in which, among other things, in the name of the Herders Society is expressed the regret about some statements during the discussions and private
On the 8th of January, 1926 a student of Germanist and medievalist Eduard Sievers (1850-1932), Germanist and language researcher Walther V. K. Ziesemer (1882-1951) sends a letter to professor Vulfius. Referring to the correspondence and the agreement with Dr Masing and HI rector Klumberg, Ziesemer announces his lecture plan in
The Baltic region was not unknown to Oswald Spengler long before his trip in 1924 through the Baltic States: while studying in Halle there were two students from Tallinn in his fried cycle; at the beginning of the First world war his sister’s husband Fritz Konhard, shortly after conscription in
On the 4th of December, 1927 the former chairman of the Herders Society in Riga, lawyer Paul Ernst Emil von Sokolowski (1860-1934) sends a letter to Oswald Spengler in which he draws attention to the political situation in the Baltic region at that time. Among other things, this letter is
The images used to design the page bring into the world of HI. Their use in some sections of the page is for illustrative purposes only. The documents shown in the pictures from the State Historical Archive of Latvia will be precisely described and, in accordance with legal and research, and technical requirements, placed in the DIGITIZATION section of the page, adding metadata. There is also Images used from the publication: Deutsche Herderhochschule zu Riga. Institutum Herderianum Rigense. Private deutsche Hochschule. Hrsg. of the Public Administration of the Institute of the Library in Riga in Lübeck Lübeck, 1939.
The educational center and scientific institution “Herder Institute in Riga” (HI) was a university whose history (1921-1939) and contribution to the genesis of modern science have an important place in the context of Latvia, Europe and the world. HeInRi is a project focusing on HI in the European Science Network.
University of Latvia
Department of Philosophy and Ethics
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raivis.bicevskis@lu.lv
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University of Latvia, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Master’s student. Graduated from Liepāja State 1st Gymnasium, Architecture Department of Liepāja Secondary School of Design and Art. Studied at the Latvian Academy of Arts, Department of Art History. She has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Latvia, Faculty of History and Philosophy, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Spent a semester at the University of Helsinki within the ERASMUS + exchange program (2017). Has been in practice at the Latvian State Archives (2018), in the editorial office of the Internet magazine “Satori” (2019). Research interests are related to the history of philosophy, 20th century. French philosophy, phenomenology.
