AGATE provides access to research information on projects of the German Academies' Programme and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. The metadata recorded for the projects can be accessed via a full-text search and faceted according to aspects such as the responsible academy, the project status and content-related aspects such as the geographical or temporal classification of the project. The full-text search allows truncation by setting an asterisk '*' in combination with at least three characters.
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Research Project, 1978–2014
Within the framework of the project, the works of Averroes (1126 - 1198) translated into Latin are to be critically edited. Averroes is Ibn Ruschd, an Arabic-speaking Hispanic Muslim who studied and edited the scientific literature of his time available to him. In particular, his commentaries on Aristotle were translated from Arabic into Latin (later also into Hebrew) from the first half of the…
Research Project, 2002–2017
Church orders are a new type of source emerging in the 16th century and an invaluable treasure trove for research. They reflect the position of the respective sovereign or magistrate, especially in the official determination of the state of confession and the resulting religious norms. The church ordinances of the various territories and imperial cities by no means only contain internal…
Research Project, 1990–2016
The aim of the project is to produce a critical, annotated edition of the scientific writings of the Göttingen physicist and philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799). Lichtenberg was one of the most respected experimental physicists of his time and was also active in many other scientific disciplines. His writings are highly significant testimonies and sources for the history of the…
Research Project, 1964–2020
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…
Research Project, 1984–1997
Andreas Osiander (1496-8/1552) stand immer im Schatten der großen Reformatoren Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli und Calvin. Erst die zehnbändige Gesamtausgabe seiner Schriften, Predigten, Gutachten und Korrespondenz hat seine vielfältige Bedeutung für die Reformationsgeschichte hervortreten lassen. Seit 1522 als Prediger für die Reformation in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg tätig, hat er deren Geschicke bis…