The research and edition project on the Fruitbearing Society (1617-1680; 890 members) is dedicated to an organisation that, as a comprehensive German Academy of the 17th century, was linked to a variety of linguistic, literary, scholarly, and (educational) political ambitions. Their work is inherent in national and European perspectives, which remained productive until the Enlightenment.
The…
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PR76
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Printed eulogies or funeral sermons dating back to the two centuries between 1550 and 1750, gained huge significance regarding the exploration of Early Modern history next to its initial form as funeral sermons of the Protestant upper- and middleclass. The eulogies contain more or less extensive biographies and therefore constitute one of the most meaningful types of historical sources…
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PR71
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Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) is one of the outstanding mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century. He made fundamental contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory, functional analysis, the theory of Lie algebra and probability theory. Mathematical terms such as Hausdorff space, Hausdorff measure, Hausdorff dimension, Hausdorff metric, Hausdorff maximal principle, Hausdorff…
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PR648
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The task is the complete indexing and scientific processing of the Old High German vocabulary of all over-deliveries, with documentation of all variants and document locations, as basis for further philological research of vocabulary in literary history, linguistic and cultural history.
The document archive contains a quarter of a million glossy documents from 1250 manuscripts, one of which a…
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PR541
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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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PR788
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The task of the project is to publish the “Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regem. Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Reiches und seiner Verfassung.” As the German subtitle shows, the aim of the research work is an extensive source work on the constitution of the medieval Roman-German Empire, a politically highly complex structure that extended far…
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PR80
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The project currently attends to the complete edition of the works of Ernst Troeltsch, a classical diagnostician of modern culture. His wide-ranging oeuvre has been widely effective in various disciplinary discussions.
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PR309
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For the first time, the project aims to index and document the testimonies of the cults and rites of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman religions in a clearly arranged form. Literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence will be recorded in equal measure. This interdisciplinary approach will create a new basis for research in the field of ancient religion, which in recent times has been increasingly…
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PR636
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