The Centre for Irish-German Studies was delighted and very grateful to welcome Traute Gottschalk and her sons, Martin and Cristof, yesterday for the official launch of the Gottschalk Collection.
The Gottschalk Collection came to the Special Collections and Archives Department at the Glucksman Library in 2019, a treasure-trove of printed material related to Ireland, its literature, art, culture, music, past and present. This collection was a donation to the Centre for Irish-German Studies in UL by Celtic scholar Jürgen Gottschalk, who founded the Würzburg Irish-German Society in 1986 and devoted much of his life to promoting Irish-German friendship and scholarship.
While Jürgen Gottschalk sadly passed away in October 2019, his collection, one of the largest existing private book collections on Ireland, will serve many readers, students and scholars coming from a variety of academic disciplines and interests. Read more about it here.