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2019-09-20: 18th-century fake news? The Würzburg Lügensteine.

Guided tour in the series "Library for all" on Friday, 2019-09-20, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. at the Hubland Central Library.

https://www.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/400/fuehrungen/

2019-05-03 – 2019-07-07: Lying stones can be seen in the exhibition:

"Elfenbein und Ewigkeit - Schätze aus 400 Jahren Universitätsbibliothek"

https://www.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/400/ausstellung/

2019-05-17, 4:00 p.m.

Highlights from the exhibition Ivory and Eternity – Treasures from 400 Years of the University Library
- The Würzburg Lügensteine

18th-century fake news: The Würzburg Lügensteine - a real forgery. Learn something about the background of the scandal that shook the peaceful university town in the early 18th century with some original stones and books.

https://www.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/400/ausstellung/highlights/

Baroque news from Göttweig Abbey

Who kidnapped the goddess abbot?
Fake Fossils for Abbot Gottfried Bessel

Mag. Bernhard RAMEDER Göttweig Abbey
Daniel FREY MA Vienna

Friday 22. March 2019 19.30 o'clock
Parish hall Furth
PDF (german) for more infos

8:30 a.m. Lecture series "Irrtümer& Fälschungen  der Archäologie“  at the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim:

Dr. Beringer und die Würzburger Lügensteine - der spektakuläre Wissenschaftsbetrug im frühen  18. Jahrhundert mit über 2000 gefälschten

Lecturer : Dr. Petra Hubmann

http://www.rpmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/vortraege.html

On the occasion of the Würzburg State Garden Show the museum in Mainfranken dedicates itself to the topic from 2018-06-13 to 2018-11-04

"Garten Kunst": Die Kunst im Garten. Der Garten in der Kunst.

During the museum tour, a selection of "Würzburg Lügensteine" will be presented under the station "Kunst und Natur“. Since their discovery in 1725, their theories of origin "."zwischen Menschenhand geschaffenem Kunstwerk und von der Natur hervorgebrachter Sonderform schwankten".

2018-04-11   Anniversary of the death

Lectures as a PDF