German Refugee Rabbis in the United States of America, 1933–1990
http://mira.geschichte.lmu.de/ The DFG funded project German Refugee Rabbis in the United States 1933–1990 traces migration paths and careers of German rabbis who fled to the United States from Nazi Germany after 1933. It seeks to explore their impact on American Judaism, American Jewish communities and their travels or returns to post-war Germany. It also makes […]
eDiAna. Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages
https://www.ediana.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/ The aim of the Digital Philological/Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Language Corpora of Ancient Anatolia is to provide the first exhaustive lexical assessment of the entire corpus of the lesser attested ancient Anatolian languages, i.e. Hieroglyphic and Cuneiform Luwian, Lycian, Carian, Lydian, Palaic, Sidetic and Milyan (Lycian B). This includes the philological documentation of […]
Kaiser und Höfe Personendatenbank der Höflinge der österreichischen Habsburger des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts
http://kaiserhof.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ Eine Prosopographie der Herrschaftselite der Habsburgermonarchie bezeichnete Peter Rauscher im Jahr 2005 als dringendes Desiderat der Forschung. Diese Datenbank erfasst Erwähnungen von Höflingen in Hofstaatsverzeichnissen und anderen Quellen. Von Quelleneinträgen ausgehend, identifizieren wir Personen, erarbeiten normierte Namensansetzungen, bieten Daten zu weiteren Personenmerkmalen, entwickeln quellenübergreifende Lebensläufe und geben weiterführende Informationen. Ungeachtet dieser Aggregation von Daten […]
Euro-Babel: Better Analysis Based on Endangered Languages
http://www.babel.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/ The goal of the project is to provide innovative descriptive resources for and modern linguistic analysis of two related Ob-Ugric languages Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul). Both languages are highly endangered: of the many Mansi dialects only the Northern one survives, and the percentage of native speakers is under 20% (out of ca. 8000 […]