Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) took over the control of the Zurich church as a young man after the early death of Zwingli (1531) and made Zurich one of the centres of Protestant Europe.
He left behind an extensive correspondence, consisting of 10,000 letters addressed to him and 2,000 letters written by himself, which is one of the most extensive correspondence of the 16th century. It represents…
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During the project period of six years, it is planned on the one hand to publish the complete edition of Albrecht von Haller's reviews (including more than 9'000 in the leading German-language review organ Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen) as a central, but still largely unknown part of his oeuvre. On the other hand, a well-founded selection of approximately 8,000 letters related to the content of…
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The Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana (VSI) (Vocabulary of the dialects of Italian-speaking Switzerland) was founded in 1907 on the initiative of Carlo Salvioni and joins the similar works dedicated to the other three linguistic regions of the Confederation, the Schweizerisches Idiotikon, the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande, and the Dicziunari rumantsch grischun, with the…
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