FactGrid:The Global Genealogy of Lodges

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More than 2000 data sets to cope with The sources — so far a predominantly German picture Map view / tinyurl FactGrid is most certainly the best resource on the Illuminati — the secret "Order" founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. With the data which we could bring together form different research projects we received information about a 100 late-18th-century lodges of the German speaking territories. This is not surprising — Weishaupt's Anti-Rosicrucian secret Order had, after all, transformed itself in the late 1770s into a Masonic high-grade system in order to infiltrate lodges and through them Masonic networks. A second wave of lodges came into the FactGrid with the first GND test input: 803 in total, again mostly of the former German speaking territories. Our present map gives the picture with the shadow of history: The former German territories in modern Poland had complex Masonic network. Most of the information on our Data records is GND information designed to merely identify lodges. Research will ask questions like: Who granted the patents? (How did Freemasonry spread on the global map?) How and when did these lodges change affiliations to Grand Lodges and parent organisations? Which systems and rites did they adopt and adhere to? Who were the members? Who filled leading positions? Where did these lodges reside? What histories of naming did they write? Where can we still find archival records? What has been published about these lodges? For some 600 Lodges we can give the links to the former archives now lodged in the Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin. Information on some 500 Grand Lodges came into the compound from the Wikipedia List of Grand Lodges with additional knowledge about external affiliations. All these data can be edited by anyone with an account. First Searches The data sets of all all the lodges on FactGrid can be grabbed with these links: All the Lodges on FactGrid / in English plus where do they have their archives all lodges, by place of residence with information about founding date, constitution and mother lodge All Lodges map view All Grand Lodges on FactGrid All Grand Lodges and how they are organised by choosing external associations: net work graph The members of Gotha's former lodge (sample query) All members of the Strict Observance with code names (just a beginning) The data set of Gotha's lodge gives a pattern of in depth information we can give with more research: Lodge 'Ernst zum Compaß', Gotha But the The Global Genealogy of Lodges would demand a far wider perspective — a perspective which one would match with the genealogy of degrees, rites and systems that developed in this spread. We are here only at the beginning. It would take more than a team to get the bigger picture — it would take a joint venture of lodges and lodge archives to provide the wider picture of the historical network that is here going back into the early 18th century. People involved Reinhard Markner Numerous publications on the Illumianti and 18th-century Freemasonry Markus Meumann Academic manager of the Gotha Research Centre Projekt: Die Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Gotha Project: The Gotha Illuminati Research Base Martin Mulsow Director of the Gotha Research Centre Projekt: Die Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Gotha Project: The Gotha Illuminati Research Base Claus Oberhauser Andreas Önnerfors Róbert Péter Published on British Freemasonry 1717–1813/ Different Attitudes Towards Esotericism in the Writings of Leading Hungarian Freemasons of the Enlightenment Helmut Reinalter Numerous publications on the history of Freemasonry Stefan Sarrach Berater der Deutschen Mutterloge "Zu den Drei Weltkugeln", Berlin Christine Schaubs Publizierte über den Einfluss der Illuminaten auf die deutsche Pädagogik und den Unzertrennbaren Concordien-Orden Projekt: Die Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Gotha Olaf Simons Researcher at the Gotha Research Centre Project: Die Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Gotha Projekt: The Gotha Illuminati Research Base Josef Wäges Researcher of the 18th century Masonic High degrees. contributed Items Christian Wirkner Veröffentlichte seine Dissertation über die beiden Göttinger Logen des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Mitgliederinformationen sind im FactGrid unter den beiden Zusammenstelungen: Die Mitglieder der Göttinger Loge "Augusta zu den drei Flammen", 1765 bis 1793 Die Mitglieder der Göttinger Loge "Zum goldenen Zirkel", 1773 bis 1793 Data language All FactGrid properties of specific Masonic interest Links FactGrid search: All Lodges by date of establishment Lanes Masonic Records Search of the German National Library GND-Data, 800 data sets - these data sets will become FacgtGrid objects during the next year.] Bossu Wikidata query a masonic lodge - 255 datasets strangely meager. Logenbestände im Sonderarchiv Moskau Carl Broecker: Die Freimaurerlogen Deutschlands von 1737 bis einschliesslich 1893, Mittler, Berlin 1894.