Dietrich Scholze-Šołta, Sorbian Institute / Serbski institut in Bautzen and Cottbus –comprehensive centre for research on language, culture and history of Sorbs in Germany

The paper presents scientific research, structure and the place of Sorbian Institute in German and European science. The centre is a continuation of Institut za Serbski Ludospyt which was created in 1951 and invoked traditions of Maćica Serbska organization. The activity of Sorbian Institute concentrates in the following departments: History of Culture and Society, Empirical Research on Culture and Ethnography, Linguistic, and Lower Sorbian Research. Within its structures there is also Central Sorbian Library and Sorbian Culture Archives. The Institute is a publisher of Spisy Serbskeho Instituta monograph and “Lětopis – Zeitschrift für sorbische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur/ Časopis za rěč, stawizny a kulturu Łužiskich Serbow” magazine.