Tag Archives: Germany

The Kalliope-Verbund catalogue

|
Reply

Kalliope is an information system for collections of personal papers, manuscripts, and publishers’ archives.

Founded by the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage with financial support from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) in 2001, Kalliope superseded the Central Register of Autographs (Zentralkartei der Autographen, ZKA), which was established in 1966.

The initial data base of Kalliope was formed by 1,2 million catalog cards of the ZKA that had been provided by 450 institutions over a period of more than 30 years. The conversion of these cards into a machine-readable format was completed in 2006. Learn more.

Zeitschriften der Aufklärung (Periodicals of the Enlightenment)

|
Reply

Zeitschriften der Aufklärung is a digitally reconstructed corpus of major 18th and 19th century literary journals and review journals published in the German language. The selection of the periodicals is mainly based on the “Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815” compiled by the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen. The collection is available as a part of the digital collections of the University of Bielefeld. Learn more.

Digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica (dMGH)

|
Reply

The digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica offers digital versions of classic MGH published source material. The site is in German and the material is focused on the Middle Ages and Central Europe.

The MGH are a research institution with a long and rich history. With over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions and scholarly research on the Middle Ages in Germany and Europe, the MGH embody the classical tradition of source-oriented Medieval scholarship.

The MGH editions are one of the most reputable publications of source material for the history of the Middle Ages. They appear in the following series:

  • Scriptores (historiography)
  • Leges (laws)
  • Diplomata (charters)
  • Epistolae (letters)
  • Antiquitates (antiquities = poetry, necrologies)

Learn more

Das Bundesarchiv (The Federal Archives of Germany)

|
Reply

Das Bundesarchiv has the legal mandate to secure the archives of the federal government in the long term and to make them available for use. These are documents (including files, maps, pictures, posters, films and sound recordings in analogue and digital form) that have been produced by central offices of the Holy Roman Empire (1495-1806), the German Confederation (1815-1866), of the German Reich (1867/71-1945), the Occupation Zones (1945-1949), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949). Learn more