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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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Lexikon deutsch-jüdischer Autoren

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

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…

AGATE-ID: PR547

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