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The Hand Dictionary of Musical Terminology (HmT) deals in detailed monographs with the origin and meaning of musical terms, by understanding their conceptual and History of meaning comprehensively processed and lexically presented. As a first attempt at all an encyclopedic documentation and reflection of the musical terminology in past and present, the HmT is conceived as a music terminological…
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Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), a scientist of Jewish origin born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and driven out of Germany by the Nazis in 1933, who found his new home in exile in the USA, is still one of the most debated legal theorists on a global scale more than 40 years after his death. He is one of the very few jurists who have gained worldwide recognition outside their German-speaking circle and…
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The project Hethitische Forschungen has been based in Mainz for more than 20 years. The project has grown out of fifty years of collecting and editing and of participating in the excavations of the German Archaeological Institute in Bogazköy-Hattuša (Turkey).
The task has existed since the beginning of the research project in:
1. the archival collection of cuneiform tablets found during excavations…
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The life, work and character of the archaeologist and scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), who was born in Stendal and worked in Rome as of 1755, repeatedly offered cause for engagement and critical confrontation for archaeologists, art historians and literary scholars in the past. A scientific edition of the works of Winckelmann hasn’t existed until now. With financial support of the…
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The Historical Dictionary of Philosophy documents the use of terms from philosophy and neighbouring disciplines in their historical development. It does not include articles on persons as well as the representation of factual connections and historical epochs. Also taken into account are sciences outside of the current disciplinary structure of Philosophy, provided that they have emerged from…
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The “Neue Johannes Brahms Gesamtausgabe” brings forward Johannes Brahms’ compositional oeuvre in a historical-critical edition. Included are alternative versions, that remained unpublished by the composer, as well as adaptations by the composer of his own and external works. The goal of the edition is the reproduction of authentic texts, which are relieved from typing-, copying, and engraving…
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The goal of the project is the publication of the first critical scientific complete edition of the works of Joseph Haydn. The edition, with its planned 108 volumes, comprises 32 series (two more are planned as supplements and registers). Within each series, the works will be arranged chronologically if possible. Furthermore, the Haydn-studies will be published, which, among other things, include…
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The task and aim of this project is a critical edition of all melodies of German-language hymns from printed sources. The number of sources to be considered up to the year 1640 alone is - compared to editions of works by individual composers - uniquely extensive, with more than 2,400 printed sources. Due to this extraordinary abundance of material, it was impossible to publish the Critical Reports…
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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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LEI aims to document and etymologically comment on the entire vocabulary of Italoromania from a historical perspective. The project was founded in 1968 by Max Pfister. Since 2001 it has been managed by Max Pfister together with Wolfgang Schweickard. So far, 16 large-format volumes have been published. The LEI can also be accessed online via open access at a later date than the print output. LEI…
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The Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors is compiled from the collection of the archive Bibliographia Judaica, which provides extensive sources from around 65,000 German-speaking Jewish authors, a biography and a bibliography of authors from A to Z. The term author has been defined in the literal sense of the Latin ‚auctor'. All German-speaking Jews who, as writers, scientists, artists or public…
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The “Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbuch (MWB)” was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1994 until 1999. In 2000 the project was taken over by the Academies of Mainz and Göttingen. The research is carried out in three office sites: in Göttingen (since 1994), Trier (since 1994), and Mainz (since 2011). The project's aim is to cover Middle High German vocabulary from the period of 1050 to…
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The archive for the names of German waters was founded in 1942 in Würzburg by Hans Krahe. His first collections fell victim to the war in 1945. A new beginning was made in 1948. In 1951 the archives came under sponsorship of the Academy of Science and Literature in Mainz. The first fascicle of the series "Hydronymia Germaniae" was published in 1962 (Anneliese Schmid, "Das Flussgebiet des Neckar").…
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The aim of the project is a historical-critical new edition of all works by Johann Sebastian Bach. This will replace the old Bach-Gesamtausgabe from 1851-1900. The latter had proved to be in urgent need of revision, especially in its source-critical part, but also in its arbitrary selection of certain versions.
The New Bach Edition (NBA) is an urtext edition; it is intended to provide scholars…
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From the very beginning, the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe has set itself the goal of serving both scholarship and practice. In this way it has gained a new and essential accent compared to the old Complete Edition, which was almost exclusively adapted to scholarly needs. Approximately 130 volumes are planned (the critical reports on the music volumes are usually published separately). The New Mozart…
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At the Medical Faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg there exists a research unit of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. In the long term, the research program is designed to investigate the pathogenetic role of new chronic persisting viruses in immunodeficiency and tumor diseases of the hematopoietic system and to explore new therapeutic methods. The work is carried out in…
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The “Neue Schubert-Ausgabe” is a scholarly critical edition of all musical works of Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Its 84 volumes are classified in eight series according to groups of works and include a catalogue of works, documents concerning the biography, and catalogues of sources. Each volume lists the most important sources and interpretations, and is completed by a separate critical report.…
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The aim of the internationally geared project is the critical edition of exemplary works of the European music theatre from Baroque to Modernism. Thus, for the first time an academy-project exclusively addresses the music theatre and its diverse manifestations. Published are the works from the French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and Slavic music theatre.
In total, 16 works of different genres…
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