Welcome
to ADA
Database of
the women's history research project
The sources
Welcome
to ADA
Database of
the women's history research project
The sources
The Humboldt-University Archives are
the largest University Archives in Germany.
Here you find a variety of documents
from the day the University was established (1810) to date.
The institutional records, historical
manuscripts, photos, personal documents of the university staff etc. are
well recorded, but if you’d believe the finding aids, there have never
been women at our university ...
Prussia was the last country in Europe to matriculate women, in 1908. Yet, as our project will show, since then the Berlin University had a huge number of dedicated, talented, mistakably forgotten women among its members.
The project
Over the last four years 3 researchers and 3 students have been looking through the archives from a gender-perspective. File by file, sheet by sheet, we looked through the sources and filtered all names of female scientists and all data concerning women at our university (laws, decrees, faculty-debates, statistics,discriminating and promoting factors). Due to the Berlin regulation for data protection our research had to stop with the year 1968.
The database
We had a sql-database programmed that
contains all the data. After we collected the data offline with Filemaker,
they were converted into a Sybase-structure.
Our database has a 2-fold structure.
In a biographical register (REGESTE) you’ll find personal information on
different women, such as family background, job stations inside and outside
the university, publications. Secondly we collect facts that concern women
in general in a inventory (SACHINVENTAR). Here you might find a list
of speeches, clubs or parties organised by women, information on funding
as well as ‘funny’ quotations of Humboldt’s Antifeminists.
Access / Copyright notice
The complete database (1895-1968)
is accessible to researchers via the ZiF or the University-Archive. Due
to dataprotection the internet-version contains only information for the
period until 1930.
Reproduction is authorised, provided
the source is acknowledged.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Ours is a historical database. We take the
facts as given in the files. The database is meant as a research tool.
We hope our project will have a stimulating
effect on further research of the history of the women at our university.
For any tips, feedback...
please mail to: Dr.
Karin.Aleksander; Dr.
Gabi Jähnert
