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The “Dictionnaire étymologique de l’ancien français” (DEAF) is a fundamental dictionary of Old French, encompassing the timespan between 842 (date of the Strasbourg Oath between Louis the German and Charles the Bald against Lothair I transmitted in the Old High German and Old French languages) until the mid-14th century (the epochal boundary with Middle French on philological and social grounds).
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This project focuses upon the publication of dictionaries on the medieval language of Southern France. In addition to the “Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l’ancien gascon” (DAG), a thematically ordered dictionary of the Gascon linguistic sphere, equally conceived “Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l’ancien occitan” (DAO) encompassing the entire Old Occitan linguistic sphere, supplemented by means of…
AGATE-ID: PR98
Die Forschungsstelle befasste sich mit der Entwicklung und Anwendung naturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungsverfahren für archäologisch-kulturhistorische Themen mit den Arbeitsschwerpunkten physikalische Datierung und holozäne Landschaftsrekonstruktion.
Mit Lumineszenz lassen sich an gebrannten Artefakten der Erhitzungszeitpunkt sowie an Sedimenten das Ablagerungsalter bestimmen. Dies erlaubt die…
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The Jewish diaspora in medieval northern France mastered Hebrew and Aramaic, since their main knowledge resources (Bible, Talmud, and Responsa literature) were written in these languages. However, Old French was their vernacular as it was for the Christian population. This medieval Judeo-French literacy is documented in various literary, scientific, and religious texts dating from the 11th to the…
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The second half of the 6th century AD marks a significant epoch in the history of Chinese Buddhism. In the years 577/578, the faithful suffered persecution under the secular state of Zhou. Concurrently, monks made great strides in translating the writings of the Buddha, resulting in a completely transformed appreciation of his teachings. Originally hailing from India, this religion was now adapted…
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Historical-critical edition of the philosophical, theological, mathematical church political writings as well as the sermons of Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 1464). Besides the Opera omnia, the sources for the life story (Acta Cusana) and the series "Cusanus-Texte" and "Cusanus-Studien" were published.
AGATE-ID: PR543
Headed by Prof. Dr. Christian Leitz, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), Department of Egyptology, this research project’s aim is the analysis of the contents of the so-called temple texts which form ancient Egypt’s largest and (regardless of chronological and geographical differences) cohesive textual corpus. Most striking about this corpus besides its extent and frequently…
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Medieval and early modern inscriptions crafted before 1650, in Latin and German language, situated in German-speaking areas are at the heart of this project. Inscriptions are significant and unique historical sources because they are often preserved in an authentic state and in their original setting. For the premodern era, script which was affixed to stone, wood, metal, glass as well as textiles…
AGATE-ID: PR17
The comprehensive Dictionary of historical German (and West Germanic) Legal Language explains and illustrates legally relevant vocabulary from the beginning of German written tradition (around AD 400) to 1815. Its basis is formed by an archive of roughly 2.5 million word quotations.
A volume of the Dictionary comprises 5 double fascicles of 320 columns each. The fascicles appear on a yearly…
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For some 3,500 years (34th century BC to 1st century AD), cuneiform served to document, preserve and disseminate intellectual content. The capacity for great cultural and political achievement found among the empires of the Near East was closely bound to the development and use of this medium.
Characteristic to the cultures of the ancient Near East is thus not in the least the extraordinary…
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The project “Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg” (i.e. “Epigraphic Database Heidelberg”, or EDH for short) was established in 1986 with a duration of five years under the auspices of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Program, and further funded from 1991 onwards by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Since 1993, it has been a research project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences with a duration until 2020.…
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In the high mountain range of northern Pakistan, where the Hindu Kush, the western Himalayas and Karakorum meet, there is a unique collection of rock paintings on the Upper Indus, one of the largest in the world. They are concentrated in the Indus Gorge in an extension of about 100 km between Indus-Kohistan up to the Raikot Bridge around the central town of Chilas, but can also be found along the…
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The main objective of the research work is the comprehensive collection and preparation of archival and musical sources on the social and institutional history of the Southwest German court chapels. Comparative institutional-historical questions in the pan-European context as well as stylistic-critical studies on the compositional practice of court and nobility orchestras, studies on their role in…
AGATE-ID: PR102
The „Goethe-Wörterbuch“ is a dictionary that analyses the use of words in the texts of a single author, presenting Goethe’s entire vocabulary in alphabetical order. On the basis of approximately three million archive slips on about 90.000 headwords, it displays their multiple usage in systematically structured entries, with selected quotations to verify and illustrate the differentiated meanings.…
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Das Projekt ‚Hinduistische Tempellegenden in Südindien‘ erschließt die Tempellegenden der südindischen Stadt Kanchipuram in ihren unterschiedlichen Überlieferungsformen und macht sie in einer digitalen Umgebung zugänglich.
Im Zentrum des Projekts steht die Erstellung digitaler Editionen der auf Sanskrit und Tamil verfassten Texte. Dieses Korpus umfasst acht umfangreiche Texte auf Sanskrit und in…
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Andreas Osiander (1496-8/1552) stand immer im Schatten der großen Reformatoren Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli und Calvin. Erst die zehnbändige Gesamtausgabe seiner Schriften, Predigten, Gutachten und Korrespondenz hat seine vielfältige Bedeutung für die Reformationsgeschichte hervortreten lassen. Seit 1522 als Prediger für die Reformation in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg tätig, hat er deren Geschicke bis…
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The work attributed to John Malalas was compiled in the 6th AD as a universal chronicle – an outline of the history of the world from Adam up to the author’s own time. Little is known about the author himself, of whom we have no trace outside his work. If it is at all possible to infer any biographical details from the chronicle, he must have lived in Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey) under…
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Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) counts among the most significant 20th century philosophers of the German language. Having earned a doctorate in medicine and a second degree (habilitation) in psychology, he held a professorial chair of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg until his dismissal by the National Socialist regime in 1937. In 1948, Jaspers followed a call to a chair at the University of…
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