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Augustinus-Lexikon

The “Augustinus-Lexikon” (AL) is a multivolume dictionary of terms and encyclopaedia of Augustine, his life and thinking, his works, people from his personal environment and his contemporary historical context (places, things and circumstances of social, political, cultural, and cultic importance), that comprises about 1200 lemmas.

The terms characteristic of Augustine’s thinking are presented…

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Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands

At the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz and in cooperation with the Technical University of Darmstadt, a digital dictionary of surnames is being developed. For the first time, this dictionary records all currently existing family names Germany (also foreign names) lexicographically, maps them and etymologizes them with the help of maps.

Previous dictionaries of surnames record only a…

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Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie

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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Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie

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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Lessico Etimologico Italiano

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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Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren

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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Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch

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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Wörterbuch der deutschen Winzersprache

The Mainz Academy project "Dictionary of the German Winegrowing Language (WDW)" is a European technical dictionary on the older terminology of winegrowing and wine culture in all German and (formerly) German-speaking winegrowing regions of Western, Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe. In addition to the oral vocabulary of the winegrowers, which is predominantly dialectal, the focus of the…

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Wörterbuch der russischen Sprache der Gegenwart

In view of outdated Russian-German standard works, for which there will be no replacement in the foreseeable future here, as in Russia, as well as the normative character of previous bilingual Russian dictionaries, the Russian-German dictionary represents a desideratum of great cultural-political significance. The task is to create a complete dictionary on a new and philologically reliable basis,…

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Wörterbuch, Sammelbuch und Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten

The Greek papyri from Egypt represent one of the most important documentary sources of antiquity with over 45,000 published texts from the period 331 BC - 641 AD. The papyri provide evidence of ancient history, economic and social history, legal history, religious history and classical philology. Das Wörterbuch der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten (WB), das Sammelbuch (SB) and die…

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