Found in 1694, the University of Halle is considered the birthplace of the German Enlightenment. Which claims to new knowledge and reforms to science and society did the scholars hope to achieve? This volume addresses the question with regard to various disciplines and communicational situations such as teaching, publication, and politics. Innovation was a widespread aspiration; the practice, by contrast, turns out to be much more ambivalent.

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Daniel Fulda und Andreas Pecar, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle.