The Correspondence between Adolf Harnack and Friedrich Althoff (1886-1908).Edition, Introduction, Commentary and Index

该项目的目的是出版弗里德里希·阿尔托夫和阿道夫·哈纳克（1886-1908）之间的通信版本，并附有介绍、评论和索引。在目前的研究状态下，这些通信包括338封信（哈纳克245封，阿尔托夫93封），这些信件都被破译并转录成电子版本。作为第一教育局局长，阿尔托夫负责普鲁士的大学、图书馆、博物馆、历史遗迹的保护和中等教育。反过来，哈纳克是威廉德国最有影响力的学者和政治学者之一。因此，这些书信涉及了那个时期的科学史、教育史、大学史、政治史和思想史的核心方面。因此，它是一个主要的来源，可以用来研究各种学科的历史问题。因此，这次交流的出版不仅与对其学科历史感兴趣的神学家、现代历史学家或关注教育史和大学史的社会科学家有关，而且与法学家、行政历史学家、古代历史学家以及性别研究有关。这些信件涵盖了近四分之一个世纪，可以深入研究19世纪下半叶德国高等教育的扩张和多样化。它特别表明(1)由于普鲁士官僚主义对高等教育的影响越来越大，大学管理逐渐专业化和现代化；(2)结果，国家对教授任命制度的控制增加了，而大学在这一领域的传统自主权日益受到忽视；(3)有系统地扩大国内和国际学术合作机构；（四）有针对性地推广某些学科；（五）吸引社会资金赞助高校内外的研究；最后，阿尔托夫建立了一个复杂的关系网，这是他典型的工作方式。

The aim of the project is to publish an edition of the correspondence between Friedrich Althoff and Adolf Harnack (1886-1908), accompanied by an introduction, commentary, and index. At the present state of research the correspondence comprises 338 letters (245 by Harnack and 93 by Althoff) which have all been deciphered and transcribed in an electronic version. In his capacity as director of the first Department of Education Althoff was responsible for universities, libraries, museums, the preservation of historical monuments, and secondary education in Prussia. In turn, Harnack was one of the most influential academics and political scholars of Wilhelmine Germany. The correspondence, therefore, deals with central aspects of the history of science, education, universities, politics, and mentalities of that period. It is, therefore, a major source which can be used to investigate historical problems of various disciplines. The publication of this exchange is thus relevant not only for theologians interested in the history of their discipline, for historians of the modern period, or for social scientists focussing on the history of education and of the universities, but also for jurists, historians of administration, and ancient historians as well as gender studies. The correspondence, which covers almost a quarter of a century, allows an in-depth study of the expansion and diversification of German Higher Education in the second half of the nineteenth century. It shows in particular (1) that university administration was gradually professionalized and modernized due to the growing influence of Prussian bureaucracy on higher education; (2) that, as a result, the state control of the system of appointments of professors increased while the traditional autonomy of the universities in this area was increasingly disregarded; (3) that institutions for national and international academic cooperation were systematically expanded; (4) that certain academic disciplines were targeted for promotion; (5) that private funds were attracted for the sponsorship of research within and outside universities; (6) that, finally, Althoff had established an elaborate network of contacts which was typical of his working method.