Research

Projects in the Academies' Programme

Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities in Anatolia, 16th to 20th Centuries

The project researches and documents the historical living environments of Alevi communities in Anatolia from the 16th to the 20th century.

BACH Research Portal

The BACH Research Portal makes all available archival sources on the entire Bach family of musicians accessible to the public in digital form for the first time.

Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature

Bibliotheca Arabica explores Arabic literature from the 12th to the 19th century through manuscripts and data on their transmission.

Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road

The project analyses the paintings from Kucha, their narrative content and their significance in the history of art and religion, and make them digitally accessible.

Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti digital

The CJHNTdigital creates a comprehensive digital platform documenting surviving evidence of early Judaism (300 BCE–200 CE) within the Hellenistic-Roman world and scholarly commentaries on selected early Jewish and New Testament texts to illuminate New Testament texts through Greco-Roman influenced Jewish thought.

German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

The interacademic project “Die Deutschen Inschriften” (German Inscriptions) is dedicated to the recording and annotated edition of preserved and transcribed inscriptions from the German-speaking world up to the year 1650.

Edition of Philipp Jakob Spener's letters (1635–1705), primarily from his time in Berlin (1691–1705)

The historical-critical edition of Spener's letters provides an important source for in-depth research into the early modern period, particularly its church and theological history.

Etymological dictionary of Old High German

The Etymological Dictionary of Old High German explores the origins and future of all Old High German words and the corresponding lexemes in related languages.

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Correspondence. Text – Commentary – Dictionary

The project edits Jacobi's correspondence, which one of the most important exchange of letters around 1800, and his key terminology is additionally explained in a freely available digital dictionary.

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State and third-party funded projects

Bach Repertorium

The Bach Repertory catalogues the verifiable musical works of all members of the widely branched Bach family of musicians and produces scholarly editions of selected works.

Dance in the GDR as cultural heritage. Pilot project for modelling event data, taking into account the experience-based knowledge of experts.

Using digital methods, the project explores the cultural heritage of dance in the GDR and develops new ways of analysing, networking and communicating historical events.

Long-term Availability and Integration of Linked Dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian (AWV 2.0)

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Overview of all research projects