Special Holdings & Collections — BBF – Research Library for the History of Education

Special Holdings & Collections

As a research library the BBF covers a broad scope regarding the content and time period of its archival and library holdings, Some of these are exceptional because no other library or archive holds such a comprehensive or unique collection, or because the holdings are crucial for research in a particular field of educational history. A few of these collections are presented here.

Adolf Reichwein Archive

The Adolf Reichwein Archive consists of the legacy left by the pedagogue and resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein (1898–1944), a comprehensive ...

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Archival Materials on the History of Kindergarten and the Friedrich Fröbel's Pedagogy

The archives of the BBF contain an comprehensive collection on the history of the kindergarten. Particularly noteworthy is the partial legacy of the ...

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Archive of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in the GDR

The archive of the former Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in the GDR (APW) holds relevant sources for educational and school educational research in ...

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Collection of "Old Prints"

The “Old prints“ collection is a core element and a treasury of the BBF library, containing approximately 390 shelf metres with ca. 15,000 volumes ...

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Collection of Autographs

The beginnings of the collection of autographs can be traced to the history of the predecessor of the BBF, i.e. the German Teachers Library, in the ...

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Curricula

The BBF holds an exceptionally comprehensive collection of curricula, regarding epochs, subjects and school types.

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Drawings and Paintings by Students

The collection of student sketches at the BBF archive is largely based on a collection by "Bund Deutscher Kunsterzieher e.V. (BDK)", an association ...

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Institutional Archive of the DIPF

The archive of the DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, contains administrative files, research materials and ...

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Journals Before 1945

Amongst its most outstanding holdings, the BBF owns a collection of periodicals with more than 15,000 titles spanning the years 1690 to 1945.

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Legacy of Berthold Otto

The BBF archive holds the legacy of Berthold Otto (1859 –1933), a relevant reform pedagogue publisher of the weekly magazine "Der Hauslehrer" and ...

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Legacy of Hugo Gaudig

he legacy of Hugo Gaudig (1860–1923), the reform pedagogue and advocate of higher education for girls, was donated to the BBF archives by his ...

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Pedagogical Lectures

Pedagogical lectures are teachers' essays from the GDR, originating from practical school work and teaching, often field reports. They were assessed ...

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Reviewing Office for German Schools and Studies

The holdings include the personnel records of teachers in Prussia as well as other records of the Reviewing Office for German Schools and Studies in ...

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School Programmes and Annual School Reports

The BBF has probably the most complete collection of annual reports of Prussian secondary schools. Together with the annual reports from schools ...

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Student Journals

The BBF possesses roughly 7,000 copies of student journals, i.e. one of the largest collections of German student journals from the first post-war ...

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