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Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands

• Germany
• Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
• Dictionary
• Running

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…

AGATE-ID: PR16

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Germania Sacra. Die Kirche des Alten Reiches und ihre Institutionen

• Germany
• Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
• Collection
• Running

The task of the project “Germania Sacra” is to gain access and to publish the diverse and comprehensive written sources, which give evidence of the history of the Church of the Holy Roman Empire and its institutions. For this purpose, the source material of archives and libraries is published in the form of reference books. The reference books provide an extensive description of the dioceses,…

AGATE-ID: PR55

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