The project goes back to the Anglicist and natural scientist Johannes Hoops (1865 - 1949), who founded the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde with a four-volume edition between 1911 and 1919. The second, completely revised and greatly altered edition has been published since 1968. The Reallexikon attempts to develop a methodical and factual study on antiquity in Central and Northern…
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The project „Robert Schumann's Poetic World (RSPW): Drama - Oratorio - Vocal Symphony - Literary Work: an historical-critical hybrid edition“ being carried out jointly within the Akademienprogramm by the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Leipzig, the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, and the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Munich, is an interdisciplinary…
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Until 1995, the Bonn office site created the "Bibliographia Patristica", thus fulfilling an elementary task of providing information for patristics. It offers a comprehensive documentation and a systematic itemisation of the international literature on all areas of patristics and its neighboring research areas.
From 1996 onwards, the office site devoted itself exclusively to the reception and…
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With its scope and diverse subject matter, Arabic literature is one of the richest in the world. Beginning in the 7th century CE, it blossomed within a civilization characterized by a vast network of cultural traditions and ties that were shaped by Islam. Like the Akkadian and Chinese literatures, Arabic literature is an ancient and erudite archive of knowledge. Until well into the 19th century,…
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From 2012 to 2025, the project explores the beginning and end of the Roman era in the central Alpine region. Through excavation projects in Pfaffenhofen (North Tyrol) and San Martino/San Silvestro (Trentino), the project opens up new archaeological source material from two important transitional periods. In Pfaffenhofen-Hörtenberg, the largest Iron Age settlement in North Tyrol is being…
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The Edition of Martin Bucer's German Writings is the German branch of the international project of a first historical-critical complete edition of Martin Bucer's works, the other two parts (Latin works and correspondence) of which are being developed at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Erlangen.
The Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer (Butzer) has considerable significance for the…
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The early poetic anthologies of classical Tamil form part of the great literary heritage of mankind, even if they are still little known in the West. Just the first millennium comprises a tradition of erotic and heroic poetry, but also didactic, epic and devotional collections, along with a sophisticated systems of grammatical, poetical and lexicographical knowledge, which on the one hand was used…
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The project “Galen als Vollender, Interpret und Vermittler der antiken Medizin” edits, translates, and comments on medical texts by Galen, which - from today’s perspective - are in the field of tension between the natural sciences and the humanities.
Galen von Pergamon, who worked in Rome in the 2nd century CE as medical advisor to Emperor Marcus Aurelius, became with his extensive oeuvre the…
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