Country article in printed Atlas
Chronology
| 1819 | Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Society for the Knowledge of Elder German History) editing the Monumenta Germaniae Historica |
| 1825 | Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (renamed in 1873: Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum and in 1902 Inscriptiones Graecae) |
| 1832 | History seminar in Königsberg. Historisch-politische Zeitschrift (Historico-Political Journal) |
| 1853 | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Theodor Mommsen) |
| 1857 | History seminars in Munich and Würzburg |
| 1859 | Historische Zeitschrift (Historical Journal) |
| 1861–77 | History seminars in the main German universities |
| 1875 | Central Office for Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Berlin (re-established in 1949 in Munich) |
| 1887 | Acta Borussica |
| 1888 | Historische Station (Historical Position), later Deutsches Historisches Institut (German Historical Institute) in Rome |
| 1889 | Deutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (German Review of Historical Sciences), titled Historische Vierteljahresschrift (Historical Quarterly) until 1937–38 |
| 1893 | Historikertag (First Congress of Historians). Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Social and Economic History Quarterly); Archiv für Kulturgeschichte (Archive for Cultural History); Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (Archive for Reformation History) |
| 1917 | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für deutsche Geschichte (KaiserWilhelm-Institute of German History), after the Second World War renamed Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Max-Planck-Institute of History) in Göttingen |
| 1920 | Notgemeinschaft für die deutsche Wissenschaft (Emergency Association of German Science), later Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), major funding body in the German scientific system |
| 1931–45 | Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaften (German Research Communities Abroad), network of research institutes and publication projects focused ethno-political history legitimating a policy of expansion |
| 1935 | Transformation of Monumenta Germaniae Historica into a Reichsinstitut für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Empire Institute of Elder German History) |
| 1950 | Johann Gottfried Herder-Forschungsrat (Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council), until 1993 funded by the Federal Republic and in legal responsibility for the Herder-Institut in Marburg as well as for seven Commissions doing research on the historical development of regions which were part of the German Reich until 1945 |
| 1953 | Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (Journal for Historical Sciences) in the GDR |
| 1953 | Vierteljahresschrift für Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History Quarterly) in the FRG |
| 1958 | Centre allemand de recherches historiques (German Centre of Historical Sciences, from 1964 onwards Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris – German Historical Institute in Paris) |
| 1975 | Geschichte und Gesellschaft (History and Society). Deutsches Historisches Institut (German Historical Institute) in London |
| 1987 | Deutsches Historisches Institut (German Historical Institute) in Washington |
| 1989 | Deutsches Historisches Institut (German Historical Institute) in Warsaw |
| 1990-93 | Fundamental reform of structures and personnel at all universities in the new Bundesländer |
| 1991 | Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte (Comparative, Journal of Global History) |
| 1993 | Historische Anthropologie (Historical anthropology) |
| 2005 | Deutsches Historisches Institut (German Historical Institute) in Moscow |
Bibliography
(References are included up to 2009)
Maps (left to right): German Bund 1830; German Reich 1878; West and East Germany 1955; Germany 2005. Digital Atlas of European Historiography. Ed. by Lutz Raphael, Niklas Alt, Michael Grün und Yvonne Rommelfanger. Trier 2019.
