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By its very nature an archive is meant to preserve, it takes documents from history and stores them in a safe accessible environment for the enlightenment of future generations. This storage is something that is done indiscriminately, irrespective of time, irrespective of outside influence, irrespective of the thoughts and feelings of the past or present.

In early May 2018, I moved from Toronto to Marburg to begin my summer internship at the Herder Institute, seeking to “develop European perspectives.” I chose to come to Marburg exclusively because of the institute’s focus: as an MA student in European Affairs at the University of Toronto focusing on Central European history, interning at a center exclusively entirely to the study of Central European history represented a unique opportunity that I would not have elsewhere.

Das Institut gliedert sich in fünf Abteilungen und die Direktion mit der Stabsstelle Forschungskoordination. Die Abteilungen sind: Digitale Geschichte und Informationsinfrastrukturen, Forschung und Transfer, Forschungsbibliothek, Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen und Verwaltung.