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The task of the Research Centre is to select the edition of the manuscript estate of the important explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769 - 1859), the complete edition of his dependent publications, and the historical analysis of the scientific heritage. Extensive collections of copies of letters from and to Humboldt as well as of his travel diaries have been created for this purpose. These and…
AGATE-ID: PR411
The aim of the Academic Project "Altägyptisches Wörterbuch" is to create a lexical database containing a corpus of Egyptian texts from the Pharaonic period. This lexical database will provide a new research tool for Egyptology, enabling Egyptian texts to be made available in electronic form and allowing navigation and combined searches in the database, and will provide an overview of a constantly…
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The Berliner Klassik project will examine whether an interdisciplinary reconstruction of Berlin's unusual cultural heyday between 1786 and 1815 can provide an alternative to the Weimar-Jenaic Classicism. To this end, known and less known works and events of this epoch will be related to their internal and external correspondence and oppositions, their socio-cultural prerequisites and their…
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The Bibliographische Annalen project continues and will complete the bibliographical handbook "Literatur in der DDR". Two volumes of the handbook were already published in 1986 by the Central Institute for History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. The handbook is an internationally established scholarly reference work that bibliographically records all fiction and serial…
AGATE-ID: PR569
The confrontation with classical antiquity is a decisive characteristic of Western culture. Research into the afterlife of antiquity, especially in the Renaissance period, is one of the central themes of art historical research. For the "Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance", the scientific discussion always starts from the concrete ancient monument that was…
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The corpora of the ancient physicians (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Corpus Medicorum Latinorum) have the task of collecting the surviving writings of all Greek and Latin medical authors from the 5th century BC to the end of classical antiquity, including writings which have survived only in fragmentary form. The project provides historical-critical editions with translations (optionally in German,…
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The editions of the German texts of the Middle Ages are compiled partly by staff of the Berlin office and partly by authors from all over the world. The current editions deal with medieval verse epics (Albrecht's Jüngerer Titurel), verse or prose chronicles (Christherre-Chronik, Weltchronik Heinrichs von München, Eisenacher Stadtchronik und Thüringische Landeschronik von Johannes Rothe),…
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Ancient, christian theologians such as Augustine (354 - 430 AD) or Origines (ca. 185 - 254 AD) shaped the culture of subsequent epochs with their rich oeuvre and often influence it until today. There are many reasons to deal with the effects of classical works. Elementary requirements for this proposition are good text editions. The research unit would like to work in close Cooperation with…
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The purpose of the project is to create an edition of the collected works of the historian of philosophy and religious philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 - 1872). Especially through his criticism of Hegel, in his writing "Das Wesen des Christentums“ as well as the drafts for a "Philosophie der Zukunft" and his "Vorlesungen über das Wesen der Religion“ Ludwig Feuerbach has a lasting influence on…
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The "ground plan" of the history of German poetry from its sources is the basic work of German literary historical research that was simultaneously developed and grown with the subject. The aim is to explore and process all the essential historical facts and data on the development of German literature from its beginning to the end of the 19th century. The chronological presentation of the…
AGATE-ID: PR409
The task of the project is to compile the German and foreign-language new publications on all subject areas of German history on the basis of the autopsy principle as completely as possible and to make them accessible in form and content. The reporting period covers the period from the birth of Christ to the present day. It covers the entire range of scientific publications such as monographs,…
AGATE-ID: PR431
The edition includes all letters to Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763-1825), one of the most successful writers of the Goethe era, that have been handed down. The historical- critical edition of Jean Paul's works and letters, started by Eduard Berend in the twenties on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, is thus supplemented by the fourth section. The Letters from Jean Paul…
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As part of a new project, the BBAW has been devoting itself since January 2004 to "Prussia as a Cultural State" and thus to the ambiguous image of Prussia in history. The range of interpretations extends from the militarily organized authoritarian state to the tolerant enlightenment state to the multi-ethnic integration state. The BBAW's approach to Prussian history not only corresponds to its…
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The Prosopographia Imperii Romani is a biographical dictionary, which essentially covers the ruling class of the Roman Empire in the early and high imperial period. The investigation period begins the Battle of Aktium 31 BC, which sealed the monarchical future of Rome. It ends with the reign of Diocletian (284-305), as the state and social structure of the empire had changed considerably since his…
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Similar to the famous "Who is Who", the prosopography of the Central Byzantine period (PmbZ) for the years 641 to 1025 covers all important persons of the Byzantine Empire, such as emperors and empresses, patriarchs etc., in short Byzantines with money, power and influence from the capital Constantinople and the provinces, but also from the surrounding medieval world of states. Unlike a modern…
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The minutes of the more than 5,200 meetings of State Ministers from 1810/17 to 1934/38 represent an important source of information on Prussian and German political, constitutional, social, economic and cultural history.
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The task of the research centre is the critical edition of the writings and the estate of the theologian, philosopher, philologist and secretary of the Academy Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834), one of the most distinguished figures in the intellectual history of the 19th century. A critical edition of the writings, the estate and the exchange of letters has long been a…
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