With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

Die elektrischen Quanten. Career
Stark worked in various positions at the Physics Institute of his alma mater until 1900 when he became an unsalaried lecturer at the University of Göttingen. (Sonderabdruck aus 'Annalen der Physik' 4.