University Archive Greifswald

Back to being fully-staffed! The team at the University Archive welcomes its new head, Dr. Elisabeth Heigl.

The old university registers and the deanery books are among the most valuable medieval and early modern manuscripts in the University Archives. They are among the earliest written records of the teaching activities... [de]

The University Archives contain numerous historical documents on the economic and financial administration of the university over a period of five centuries. In the 19th century, the university was one of the richest in Germany. It owes its prosperity to a donation made by the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw XIV in 1634...[de]

Until the beginning of the 18th century, Latin was the prevailing language of teaching and research at the university. Since the mid-16th century, German has been the predominant administrative language. However, the University Archives also contain documents in Swedish...[de]

In 1815, Greifswald became part of the Prussian universities and experienced a phase of fundamental reorganisation and modernisation. Efficient Prussian administration promoted the increase in student numbers, the differentiation and multiplication of subjects, unprecedented construction activity and heaps of records. [de]

A university is more than just lectures, exams, administration and committees. It is also a place with a special student culture in a special urban setting. It is hard to imagine a university without Greifswald and the Bay of Greifswald. All of it belongs together... [de]