Project Partners

The Max Kade Center at the University of Kansas provides a forum for literary, artistic, historical, and musical events that document the role of German-speaking immigrants in the development of American culture, and, in particular, of German-speaking refugees from Nazi oppression, in the formation of twentieth-century American culture.  

The Computer Center at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, Germany, hosts the Webserver and provides the online system to present continuing research work. It supports the technical development of applications and database programming of the project.  

The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology maintains comprehensive collections and provides educational programs and exhibits. It boasts extensive resources for Alexander von Humboldt. These materials have been essential for building the digital library.

 

    First proposed to the Max Kade Center in 1999 by Rex Clark, the Humboldt digital library project evolved through preliminary working meetings and conferences, with the support of a Transcoop grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanisches Konzil. Active participants in the initial stage were Frank Baron, Rex Clark, Detlev Doherr, Wolfgang Griep, Ulrike Leitner, and Anke Renning. The principal investigators also acknowledge the support of the General Research Fund of the University of Kansas, the research fund of the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg, and the National Science Foundation experimental program (EPSCoR).

    The recent developments were supported by a fellowship from the Linda Hall Library to Detlev Doherr for continuing the programming at the Linda Hall Library and the Max-Kade Center.