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The Gotha Illuminati Research Base is a project of the [http://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungszentrum-gotha/ Gotha Research Centre], a subunit of the University of Erfurt.
The Gotha Illuminati Research Base is a project of the [http://www.uni-erfurt.de/forschungszentrum-gotha/ Gotha Research Centre], a sub unit of the University of Erfurt University.


The Database began as a Wiki in the DFG funded project "Illuminati Essays" conducted by [[User:Markus Meumann|Markus Meumann]] and [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] under the supervision of Martin Mulsow [[User:Martin Mulsow|Martin Mulsow]].
The Database with its network of document pages of transcripts and commentary began as a regular MediaWiki in the DFG funded project "[[FactGrid:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus|Illuminati Essays]]" conducted by [[User:Markus Meumann|Markus Meumann]] and [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] under the supervision of [[User:Martin Mulsow|Martin Mulsow]].


The original Wiki was extremely successful. We were delighted it quickly united the entire research on the Illuminati. Everyone doing work in the field contacted us to have his or her own personal account.
The original platform was extremely successful with all its technical constraints &mdash; it could only speak German, all information had to be arranged manually. Yet, we were delighted that the pages quickly inspired the entire community of Illuminati research to join. Everyone doing work in the field contacted us with the wish to have an account on the platform.


[[User:Hermann Schüttler|Hermann Schüttler]] gave the project an immense push with the list of members and with a web-version of the biographies he had previously published in his ''Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93'' (Munich, 1991). He also entrusted us with a hard drive we could not that easily digest: It brought us an Access file of all the letters he had seen and catalogued in the Halle based project on the Illuminati correspondence in which he had been in the research team with [[User:Reinhard Markner|Reinhard Markner]] under the supervision of Monika Neugebauer-Wölk.
[[User:Hermann Schüttler|Hermann Schüttler]] gave the platform its a central prosopographic structure with pages he created for all the members he had previously documented in his ''Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93'' (Munich, 1991). He also offered us a hard disc drive which we could not digest that easily in 2015: Its central content was an Access database with information on all the letters he had catalogued in the Halle based project on the Illuminati correspondence in which he had been working with [[User:Reinhard Markner|Reinhard Markner]] under the supervision of Monika Neugebauer-Wölk. There was no good solution to present this treasure in a regular Wiki.


The Gotha based project on the Illuminati Essays ended in 2016 and left us with a general consensus that the "Research Base" needed far more than a Wiki &mdash; da database which we could use in order to widen the project. Wikimedia Germany was ready to support us with implementing one of the first Wikibase instances outside Wikidata: the birth of the FactGrid project wiith is now open to historical research in general.
Gotha's project on the Illuminati essays ended in 2016 and left us with the awareness that the "Research Base" needed a database solution which had to be able to work with a conventional Wiki. Wikimedia Germany was ready to support us with the implementation of one of the first Wikibase instances outside Wikidata. The ''Gotha Illuminati Research Base'' eventually migrated onto the FactGrid platform, the Wikibase installation which we could now open to historical research of neighbouring projects.


The move was appreciated by the research community. Practically everyone who is doing research on the Illuminati or Freemasonry has an account with us. We are at the same moment in an interim working on a phase 2 project to be realised on the platform we are now having. The content of the old wiki has been migrated and other projects are now widening our work with perspectives on France or the emergence of student fraternities in Germany around between 1750 and 1830.
We are presently working on a new phase of Illuminati research that will aim at the entire archival documentation of the organisation.


The ''Gotha Illuminati Research Base'' is at the same moment a provisional site. Wikibase comes without a user friendly interface. Many of our links are now directed to SPARQL queries, loved by specialists, but quite a problem for regular web-surfers. We are aware of this problem and we know it will need a designed interface sooner or later.
The ''Gotha Illuminati Research Base'' is at the same moment still a provisional project. The software comes without the user friendly interface we should like to offer. Much of our work has to be presented in SPARQL queries &mdash; to the delight of data miners but to the horror of anyone who would rather access an organised arrangement of web pages. We are aware of the problem and we know that we need a designed interface to offer easy access to the materials.


If you have questions concerning the project and the present web application contact the technical supervisor
The project's main page &mdash; [[The Gotha Illuminati Research Base]] &mdash; gives an assortment of overviews and sample searches. Our transcripts are accessible through the full text search above. If you have questions concerning the project or the present web application do not hesitate to contact us


Dr. [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]<br>
Dr. [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]<br>
Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt<br>
Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt<br>
Am Schlossberg 2<br>
Am Schlossberg 2<br>
olaf.simons@uni-erfurt.de<br>
olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com<br>


== Projects and participants ==
== Projects and Participants ==
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[[User:Erik Liebscher|Erik Liebscher]]
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Writing his dissertation on Christian Georg von Helmolt, the Superior of Gotha's Minerval Church.
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FAntwort_auf%20%3FAntwort_aufLabel%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FA_Description%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FAntwort%20%3FAntwortLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ474.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP65%20%3FAntwort_auf.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP205%20%3FAntwort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 Christian Georg von Helmolt, writings and correspondence]
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[[User:Reinhard Markner|Reinhard Markner]]
[[User:Reinhard Markner|Reinhard Markner]]
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With Hermann Schüttler co-editor of the two volumes of the ''Illuminati Correspondence'' (2005/2013) and with Josef Wages of the ''Secret School of Wisdom'' (2015).
With Hermann Schüttler co-editor of the two volumes of the ''Illuminati Correspondence'' (2005/2013), with Josef Wäges co-editor of the ''Secret School of Wisdom'' (2015).
* [[Research on the Illuminati]]
* [[Research on the Illuminati]]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FKorrespondenz%20%3FKorrespondenzLabel%20%3FKorrespondenzDescription%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP122%20wd%3AQ11243%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP97%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum|Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FKorrespondenz%20%3FKorrespondenzLabel%20%3FKorrespondenzDescription%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP122%20wd%3AQ11243%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP97%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum|The Illuminati correspondence]
* [[FactGrid:The Secret School of Wisdom|The Secret School of Wisdom]]
* [[FactGrid:The Secret School of Wisdom|The Secret School of Wisdom]]
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[[User:Erik Liebscher|Erik Liebscher]]
[[User:Andrew McKenzie-McHarg|Andrew McKenzie-McHarg]]
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* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FAntwort_auf%20%3FAntwort_aufLabel%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FA_Description%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FAntwort%20%3FAntwortLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ474.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP65%20%3FAntwort_auf.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP205%20%3FAntwort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 Christian Georg von Helmolt, writings and correspondence]
Wrote his dissertation on the rise of conspiracy theories in the 18th and 19th centuries with a particular focus on the Illuminati and surrounding societies such as Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's ''Deutsche Union''.
* Research on the construct of the Illuminati "Unknown Superior"
* [[FactGrid:Deutsche Union|Deutsche Union]]
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[[User:Markus Meumann|Markus Meumann]]
[[User:Markus Meumann|Markus Meumann]]
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* [[Projekt:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus]]
Academic manager of the Gotha Research Centre, from 2013 to 2016 with Olaf Simons part of the ''Illuminati Essays'' research team. Co-editor of '' Aufsatzpraktiken im 18. Jahrhundert'' (Hamburg, 2017) and co-author of of ''‚Mein Amt ist geheime gewissens Correspondenz‘. Bode als ‚Unbekannter Oberer‘ des Illuminatenordens“'' (2017).
* [[FactGrid:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus]]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP323%20wd%3AQ2043.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_%29 "Schwedenkiste", volume 13 with the transcripts]  
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[[User:Martin Mulsow|Martin Mulsow]]
[[User:Martin Mulsow|Martin Mulsow]]
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Head of the Gotha Research Centre [[FactGrid:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus|Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus]]
Director of the Gotha Research Centre, from 2013 to 2016 supervisor of the ''Illuminati Essays'' research team. Several micro studies on the Illuminati.
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[[User:Peggy Pawlowski|Peggy Pawlowski]]
[[User:Marie Nosper|Marie Nosper]]
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* ...sich begnügen, im Geheimen für das Gute zu wirken“. Der Beitrag Johann Adam Weishaupts zur Pädagogik des Illuminatismus [Dissertation] [[Pawlowski (2004):Sich begnügen, im Geheimen für das Gute zu wirken|Online-Ausgabe der Gothaer Illuminaten-Enzyklopädie Online]].
is presently writing her dissertation on Gotha's duke Ernest II.
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FAntwort_auf%20%3FAntwort_aufLabel%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FA_Description%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FAntwort%20%3FAntwortLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ978.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP65%20%3FAntwort_auf.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP205%20%3FAntwort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%28%3FDatum%29 The correspondence of Ernest II. of Gotha-Saxe-Altenburg]
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Author of ''Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93'' (Munich, 1991), editor of Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, ''Journal von einer Reise von Weimar nach Frankreich. Im Jahr 1787'' (Munich, 1994); with Reinhard Markner co-editor of the two volumes of the ''Illuminati Correspondence'' (2005/2013).
Author of ''Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93'' (Munich, 1991), editor of Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, ''Journal von einer Reise von Weimar nach Frankreich. Im Jahr 1787'' (Munich, 1994); with Reinhard Markner co-editor of the two volumes of the ''Illuminati Correspondence'' (2005/2013).
* Die [[Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens]] 1776–1787/93. Aktualisierte Online-Ausgabe
* [[Illuminati Membership|Illuminati Membership 1776–1787/93]].  
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FKorrespondenz%20%3FKorrespondenzLabel%20%3FKorrespondenzDescription%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP122%20wd%3AQ11243%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP97%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum|Die Korrespondenz des Illuminatenordens]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FKorrespondenz%20%3FKorrespondenzLabel%20%3FKorrespondenzDescription%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP122%20wd%3AQ11243%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP97%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FKorrespondenz%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum|The Illuminati correspondence]
* [[Research on the Illuminati]]
* [[Research on the Illuminati]]
* [[Forschungsliteratur zum Illuminatenorden]]
* [[D-Q8904|Johann Joachim Christoph Bode: ''Tagebuch, anfangend am 2 Januar 1787 bis 6 December 1788, fortgesetzt vom 28. März 1793 bis 12. Juni 1793'']]
* [[1787-01-02 ‒ 1793-06-12 Bode (Aemilius): Tagebuch|Johann Joachim Christoph Bode: ''Tagebuch, anfangend am 2 Januar 1787 bis 6 December 1788, fortgesetzt vom 28 März 1793 bis 12 Juni 1793'']]
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[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
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* [[Projekt:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus]]
Initiator of the FactGrid project, from 2013 to 2016 with Markus Meumann part of the ''Illuminati Essays'' research team. Extensive work on Johann Joachim Christoph Bode and also on Friedrich Christian Rudorf and Buttstädt, the last and failing Minerval Church of the Illuminati.
* [[FactGrid:Illuminatenaufsätze im Kontext der Spätaufklärung: Ein unbekanntes Quellenkorpus]]
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FAntwort_auf%20%3FAntwort_aufLabel%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FA_Description%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FAntwort%20%3FAntwortLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ969.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP65%20%3FAntwort_auf.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP205%20%3FAntwort.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FDatum The correspondence of Christian Friedrich Rudorf]
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[[User:Josef Wäges|Josef Wäges]]
[[User:Josef Wäges|Josef Wäges]]
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Extensive research on the Illuminati degree system, with Reinhard Markner coeditor of ''The Secret School of Wisdom'' (2015).
* [[FactGrid:The Secret School of Wisdom|The Secret School of Wisdom]]
* [[FactGrid:The Secret School of Wisdom|The Secret School of Wisdom]]
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[[User:Christian Wirkner|Christian Wirkner]]
[[User:Christian Wirkner|Christian Wirkner]]
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* [[Minervalkirche Erfurt|Protokolle der Minervalkirche Erfurt]] (Lycopolis)
Wrote his dissertation about Göttingen's 18th-century Lodges and worked as assistant of the Gotha Research Centre. He catalogued and transcribed the minutes of all the Minerval Church meetings in Thuringia and many of Bode's "Reproche-Notes".
* [[Minervalkirche Gotha|Protokolle der Minervalkirche Gotha]] (Syracus)
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#SELECT%20%3FA_%20%3FA_Label%20%3FA_Description%20%3FAutor%20%3FAutorLabel%20%3FAbsendeort%20%3FAbsendeortLabel%20%3FDatum%20%3FEmpf_nger%20%3FEmpf_ngerLabel%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript%20%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP323%20wd%3AQ2042.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP21%20%3FAutor.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP95%20%3FAbsendeort.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FDatum.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP251%20%3FFactGrid_Transkript.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP101%20%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3FA_%20wdt%3AP28%20%3FEmpf_nger.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FPosition__in_Abfolge_ Volume 12 of the "Schwedenkiste", Bode's Supervison  as the secret Superior of the Illuminati Province Ionia, Thuringia]
* [[Minervalkirche Weimar|Protokolle der Minervalkirche Weimar]] (Heropolis)
* [https://database.factgrid.de/query/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20%3FEreignis%20%3FEreignisLabel%20%3FEndzeitpunkt%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3FEreignis%20wdt%3AP2%20wd%3AQ9.%0A%20%20%3FEreignis%20wdt%3AP106%20%3FEndzeitpunkt.%0A%20%20%3FEreignis%20wdt%3AP97%20wd%3AQ10677.%0A%7D all the Illuminati events, timeline with database access]
* [[Minervalkirche Rudolstadt|Protokolle der Minervalkirche Rudolstadt]] (Aquinum)
* Projekt: Geschichte der Loge [[Louise zur gekrönten Freundschaft]]
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Revision as of 21:53, 10 April 2020

back: The Gotha Illuminati Research Base

The Gotha Illuminati Research Base is a project of the Gotha Research Centre, a sub unit of the University of Erfurt University.

The Database with its network of document pages of transcripts and commentary began as a regular MediaWiki in the DFG funded project "Illuminati Essays" conducted by Markus Meumann and Olaf Simons under the supervision of Martin Mulsow.

The original platform was extremely successful with all its technical constraints — it could only speak German, all information had to be arranged manually. Yet, we were delighted that the pages quickly inspired the entire community of Illuminati research to join. Everyone doing work in the field contacted us with the wish to have an account on the platform.

Hermann Schüttler gave the platform its a central prosopographic structure with pages he created for all the members he had previously documented in his Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93 (Munich, 1991). He also offered us a hard disc drive which we could not digest that easily in 2015: Its central content was an Access database with information on all the letters he had catalogued in the Halle based project on the Illuminati correspondence in which he had been working with Reinhard Markner under the supervision of Monika Neugebauer-Wölk. There was no good solution to present this treasure in a regular Wiki.

Gotha's project on the Illuminati essays ended in 2016 and left us with the awareness that the "Research Base" needed a database solution which had to be able to work with a conventional Wiki. Wikimedia Germany was ready to support us with the implementation of one of the first Wikibase instances outside Wikidata. The Gotha Illuminati Research Base eventually migrated onto the FactGrid platform, the Wikibase installation which we could now open to historical research of neighbouring projects.

We are presently working on a new phase of Illuminati research that will aim at the entire archival documentation of the organisation.

The Gotha Illuminati Research Base is at the same moment still a provisional project. The software comes without the user friendly interface we should like to offer. Much of our work has to be presented in SPARQL queries — to the delight of data miners but to the horror of anyone who would rather access an organised arrangement of web pages. We are aware of the problem and we know that we need a designed interface to offer easy access to the materials.

The project's main page — The Gotha Illuminati Research Base — gives an assortment of overviews and sample searches. Our transcripts are accessible through the full text search above. If you have questions concerning the project or the present web application do not hesitate to contact us

Dr. Olaf Simons
Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt
Am Schlossberg 2
olaf.simons@pierre-marteau.com

Projects and Participants

Erik Liebscher

Writing his dissertation on Christian Georg von Helmolt, the Superior of Gotha's Minerval Church.

Reinhard Markner

With Hermann Schüttler co-editor of the two volumes of the Illuminati Correspondence (2005/2013), with Josef Wäges co-editor of the Secret School of Wisdom (2015).

Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Wrote his dissertation on the rise of conspiracy theories in the 18th and 19th centuries with a particular focus on the Illuminati and surrounding societies such as Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's Deutsche Union.

  • Research on the construct of the Illuminati "Unknown Superior"
  • Deutsche Union

Markus Meumann

Academic manager of the Gotha Research Centre, from 2013 to 2016 with Olaf Simons part of the Illuminati Essays research team. Co-editor of Aufsatzpraktiken im 18. Jahrhundert (Hamburg, 2017) and co-author of of ‚Mein Amt ist geheime gewissens Correspondenz‘. Bode als ‚Unbekannter Oberer‘ des Illuminatenordens“ (2017).

Martin Mulsow

Director of the Gotha Research Centre, from 2013 to 2016 supervisor of the Illuminati Essays research team. Several micro studies on the Illuminati.

Marie Nosper

is presently writing her dissertation on Gotha's duke Ernest II.

Hermann Schüttler

Author of Die Mitglieder des Illuminatenordens, 1776-1787/93 (Munich, 1991), editor of Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, Journal von einer Reise von Weimar nach Frankreich. Im Jahr 1787 (Munich, 1994); with Reinhard Markner co-editor of the two volumes of the Illuminati Correspondence (2005/2013).

Olaf Simons

Initiator of the FactGrid project, from 2013 to 2016 with Markus Meumann part of the Illuminati Essays research team. Extensive work on Johann Joachim Christoph Bode and also on Friedrich Christian Rudorf and Buttstädt, the last and failing Minerval Church of the Illuminati.

Josef Wäges

Extensive research on the Illuminati degree system, with Reinhard Markner coeditor of The Secret School of Wisdom (2015).

Christian Wirkner

Wrote his dissertation about Göttingen's 18th-century Lodges and worked as assistant of the Gotha Research Centre. He catalogued and transcribed the minutes of all the Minerval Church meetings in Thuringia and many of Bode's "Reproche-Notes".

Johann Adam Weishaupt.jpg Ernst-II 1775.jpg Johann Friedrich Christian Rudorff, SK10-173a.png SK13(3)-Nr-048-075 page 0263.jpg Knigge Freiherr.jpg Johann Bode 2.jpg Goethe (Stieler 1828).jpg SK13-117, S.8.jpg