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Deutsche Inschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

Medieval and early modern inscriptions crafted before 1650, in Latin and German language, situated in German-speaking areas are at the heart of this project. Inscriptions are significant and unique historical sources because they are often preserved in an authentic state and in their original setting. For the premodern era, script which was affixed to stone, wood, metal, glass as well as textiles…

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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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Namenforschung. Flur- und Gewässernamen

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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Neue Bach-Ausgabe

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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