The university policy of Brandenburg-Prussia in the early stages of the University of Halle (1688-1740)

普鲁士政府创办哈雷大学的初衷是什么？政府试图以何种方式促进该机构的成功？他们用什么样的标准来定义大学的成功？我们能找出腓特烈三世政府的具体政策吗？弗雷德里克·威廉一世与国内大学的关系，尤其是与黑尔大学的关系？这些是我们研究项目的主要问题。该项目挑战了哈雷大学在其最初几十年历史中的当前观点：我们是否可以确定任何迹象表明政府打算将哈雷大学建立为一个具有改革和创新计划的机构，作为一所应该不同于神圣罗马帝国已经存在的“Landesuniversitäten”的大学？哈勒大学的成立是一项政治战略的一部分，目的是推广“启蒙运动”或“虔诚主义”等具体项目或概念吗？尽管政府对勃兰登堡-普鲁士大学的政策尚未被调查，但所有这些解释在当前关于哈雷大学的史学中都很常见。我们将重点关注四个不同的主题：柏林政府和哈雷大学之间不同的沟通方式以及官方和非正式沟通之间的关系；政府成员与哈雷大学及其成员有关的利益和意图；政府干预大学事务的不同方式；政府在多大程度上促进了要求政府支持自己的学术项目和策略的大学个别成员的概念和项目。

What were the intentions of the Prussian government while founding the university of Halle? In which way did the government try to promote the success of the institution? What kind of criteria did they have to define the success of the university? Can we identify a specific kind of policy of the government of Frederick III./I. and Frederick William I. in relation to the universities of the country, particular in relation to the university of Halle? These are the leading questions of our research project.The project challenges the current view of the university of Halle in the first decades of its history: Can we identify any indications that the government intended to found the university of Halle as an institution with a programme of reform and innovation, as an university which should be different from the already existing "Landesuniversitäten" in the Holy Roman Empire? Was the founding of the university of Halle part of a political strategy to promote specific programmes or concepts like "Enlightenment" or "Pietism"? All these interpretations are common in the current historiography about the university of Halle although the policy of the government towards the universities in Brandenburg-Prussia has not yet been investigated. We would like to focus on four different topics: the different ways of communication between the government in Berlin and the university in Halle and the relation between official and informal communication; the interests and intentions of the members of the government in relation to the university of Halle and its members; the different ways how the government could intervene in university matters; and how far the government promoted concepts and projects of individual members of the university who asked the government for support for their own academic projects and strategies.