Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte
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UnclaimedAnnual German-language academic journal for the history of universities and science, published by Franz Steiner Verlag since 1998.
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Overview
The Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte (JbUG) is an annual German-language academic journal dedicated to the history of universities and the history of science. It has been published since 1998 by Franz Steiner Verlag in Stuttgart. The journal is produced in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Society for University and Science History) and was founded by Rüdiger vom Bruch. Its current editors are Wolfgang Eric Wagner and Martin Kintzinger, with additional guest editors named for individual volumes. An advisory board includes scholars from several countries, such as Robert D. Anderson (United Kingdom), Michael Borgolte (Berlin), Marian Füssel (Göttingen), Akira Hayashima (Japan), Walter Höflechner (Austria), Konrad Jarausch (Potsdam), Dieter Langewiesche (Tübingen), Charles E. McClelland (United States), Sylvia Paletschek (Freiburg i. Br.), Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (Belgium), and Rainer Christoph Schwinges (Switzerland). Each issue contains articles and research reports, miscellanea, contributions from university archives, and book reviews. The journal is indexed and discussed on H-Soz-u-Kult, and its back issues from 2001 to 2017 are listed there. It serves as a key venue for German-language scholarship on the institutional, social, and cultural history of universities and higher learning.
History
The Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte was founded by Rüdiger vom Bruch and has been published annually by Franz Steiner Verlag in Stuttgart since 1998. It emerged as a specialized venue for the growing field of university history and the history of science in the German-speaking world. The journal is produced in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Over the years it has been edited by Wolfgang Eric Wagner and Martin Kintzinger, with guest editors for individual volumes. Its advisory board has included an international roster of scholars from the United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, the United States, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany. The journal has been indexed on H-Soz-u-Kult, where its issues from 2001 to 2017 are listed. It continues to publish articles, research reports, miscellanea, archival contributions, and reviews.
- 2017
H-Soz-u-Kult listing covers issues up to this year.
- 2001
Issues from this year onward are listed on H-Soz-u-Kult.
- 1998
Founded by Rüdiger vom Bruch; first volume published by Franz Steiner Verlag.
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A specialized German-language annual for university and science history, published by a leading academic press and affiliated with a scholarly society.
Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte annual volume
Annual collection of articles, research reports, miscellanea, archival contributions, and reviews.
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