Research projects in the Academies Programme
The Academies Programme aims to retrieve and explore our cultural heritage,
to make it accessible to a broad audience; to highlight its relevance to the present,
and to preserve it for the future. It is currently the most comprehensive humanities
research programme in Germany. Coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and
Humanities, the programme supports long-term basic research projects, predominantly in the
humanities but also in the social sciences.
This page is currently under construction and will be updated frequently.
Sorted by project type
- Basic Research in Social Science and Cultural Studies
- Editions
- Dictionaries
Sorted by topic
- Archeology
- Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Continuity of Research and Research of Continuity Basic Research on Iron Age Settlement Archaeology in the Baltic Region
- Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Bestände antiker Vasen in deutschen Museen) (CVA)
- Life Sciences
- German Linguistics and Literary Studies
- Arthur Schnitzler: Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931)
- Development of a corpus-based electronic dictionary of German Sign Language (DGS) – German
- Dialektatlas Mittleres Westdeutschland (DMW)
- Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms
- Etymological Dictionary of Old High German
- Frühneuhochdeutsches Wörterbuch
- German etymology of semantic fields in a European Context (DWEE)
- Goethe Dictionary
- Historische Fremdsprachenlehrwerke digital Language history, language attitudes and everyday communication in the context of multilingualism in Early Modern Europa (FSL digital)
- Interdisciplinary Text-Image-Research on the German-Language Middle Ages
- Johann Christoph and Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched: Correspondence. A Correspondence Network in the Age of Enlightenment. Historical-Critical Edition
- Middle High German Dictionary (MWB)
- Old High German Dictionary (Thesaurus)
- Propyläen. Research Platform for Goethe’s Biographica. Letters, Diaries, Encounters and Conversations. Chronology. Sources. Research. Focus
- regionalsprache.de (REDE)
- The Austrian Bible Translator. The Word of God in German
- The Complete Works of Uwe Johnson
- The Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany (DFD)
- Foreign Language Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Literary Tibetan
- Dictionary of Medieval Latin (MLW)
- Dictionary of Old Uighur
- Establishment of an electronic corpus of classical Tamil literature and the corresponding historical lexicon informed by emic exegetical and lexicographical sources
- Global Basic Lexicon (GloBasLex)
- Grammatical Descriptions, Corpora, and Language Technology for Indigenous Northern Eurasian Languages
- Historische Fremdsprachenlehrwerke digital Language history, language attitudes and everyday communication in the context of multilingualism in Early Modern Europa (FSL digital)
- Interdisciplinary Dictionary of Classic Mayan
- Lessico Etimologico Italiano (LEI)
- Structure and Transformation in the Vocabulary of the Egyptian Language: Texts and Knowledge in the Culture of Ancient Egypt
- Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
- Ancient History
- Ancient Egyptian cursive scripts: Digital palaeography and systematic analysis of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic writing
- Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Commentary on the New Testament in the Context of Hellenistic Judaism
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
- Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals
- Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
- Early Buddhist manuscripts from Gandhāra: religious literature at the interface of India, Central Asia and China
- Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentierung der Kleinen und fragmentarischen Historiker der Spätantike (KFHist)
- Encyclopaedia for the Antiquity and Christianity (RAC)
- Hindu Temple Legends in South India
- Inscriptiones Graecae
- Structure and Transformation in the Vocabulary of the Egyptian Language: Texts and Knowledge in the Culture of Ancient Egypt
- Medieval and Early Modern History
- Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Averroes and the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy
- Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Burchard’s Digital Decree
- Edition of the Frankish Capitularies
- Etymologika. Order and interpretation of knowledge in Greek and Byzantine lexica up into the Renaissance. Online edition with resources on manuscript production, user groups and cultural environment
- Forming Europe by Overcoming the Schism of the 12th Century
- Formulae - Litterae - Chartae. New edition of the early medieval formulae with an exploration and analysis of early medieval letters and charters in Western Europe (c. 500 - c. 1000)
- Germania Sacra
- Handschriftencensus (HSC). Kompetenzzentrum 'Deutschsprachige Handschriften des Mittelalters'
- Interdisciplinary Text-Image-Research on the German-Language Middle Ages
- Letters and Records regarding the Church Politics of Frederick the Wise and John the Constant from 1513 to 1532
- Martin Buber Correspondence – Digital Edition
- Melanchthon-Briefwechsel
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Constitutiones et acta publica
- Prize Papers. Cataloguing – Digitisation – Presentation
- Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus: Edition and study of the Arabic and Latin versions of Ptolemy’s astronomical and astrological works and related material
- Regesta Imperii (Sources for Imperial History)
- Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
- The Edition of Emperor Frederick II’s Charters
- The School of Salamanca - A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of its Juridical-Political Language
- Modern History
- Adaption Strategies of the Late Central European Monarchy Through the Example of Prussia, 1786 to 1918
- Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal
- European Religious Peace Agreements - A Digital Edition (EuReD)
- Hans Kelsen Werke (HKW)
- Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
- History of Science
- Epigraphy and Onomastics
- Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road
- Buddhist Stone Sutras in China
- Corpus of Hittite Festival Rituals
- Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
- The Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany (DFD)
- Toponymies between Rhine and Elbe – Onomastics in the European Area
- Art History
- Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiquities in European Visual Sources from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern Silk Road
- Corpus of Baroque Ceiling Painting in Germany (CbDD)
- Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Bestände antiker Vasen in deutschen Museen) (CVA)
- Steinerne Zeugen digital. German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity – Space, Form, Inscription
- Musicology
- Beethoven's workshop: Genetic textual criticism and digital edition
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann-Gesamtausgabe. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe seiner Werke, Schriften und Briefe
- Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber
- Corpus monodicum. Die einstimmige Musik des lateinischen Mittelalters
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkausgabe (EWK-WA)
- Halle Handel Edition
- Kritische Ausgabe der Werke von Richard Strauss
- Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Neue Brahms-Ausgabe
- New Schubert Edition
- Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM, Deutsche Quellen)
- Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM, Zentralredaktion)
- Richard Wagner Schriften (RWS). Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe
- Wissenschaftlich-kritische Herausgabe von Werken Max Regers
- Oriental studies
- Philosophy
- Averroes and the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy
- Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina (CAGB)
- Edition of the letters of Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919): Edition of Letters
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Briefwechsel. Text - Kommentar - Wörterbuch
- Galen of Pergamum. The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine
- German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE)
- Jaspers Edition
- Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie
- Leibniz-Edition
- The Complete Works of Marx and Engels (MEGA)
- The School of Salamanca - A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of its Juridical-Political Language
- Legal History
- Theology
- Averroes and the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Reception of Aristotle’s Natural Philosophy
- Burchard’s Digital Decree
- Commentary on the New Testament in the Context of Hellenistic Judaism
- Correspondence between theologians in the southwestern part of the empire in the early modern period (1550–1620)
- Die alexandrinische und antiochenische Bibelexegese in der Spätantike
- Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters
- Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament
- European Religious Peace Agreements - A Digital Edition (EuReD)
- Letters and Records regarding the Church Politics of Frederick the Wise and John the Constant from 1513 to 1532
- Melanchthon-Briefwechsel
- Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior (ECM)
- Patristics: Dionysius Areopagita Edition
- Patristics: Edition of the Writings of John of Damascus
- Schleiermacher in Berlin 1808–1834. Correspondence, daily calendar, lectures
- The Austrian Bible Translator. The Word of God in German
- Social Science and Cultural Studies
- Paleoanthropology