BBF | Research Library for the History of Education

The BBF | Research Library for the History of Education in Berlin is a research library with outstanding library and archive holdings on the history of German education in its international relations and a center for historical educational research in Germany. The BBF is a department of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education.

The BBF is committed to collecting knowledge in education from a historical perspective. Sources as well as national and international research literature on the history of education in Germany are made available for scientific use in different forms. Scientists from diverse disciplines with an interest in the history of education in Germany are advised and supported in their work. Moreover, in a way that is relevant for today’s education, the BBF contributes to historical research on education, care and socialization. The BBF contributes to a beneficial transfer of such historical knowledge to the educational political, professional and general public. To this end, the three areas of work, i.e. the library, archive and research unit collaborate closely at the BBF.