Research center for personal fonts

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Research center for personal fonts
Research center for personal fonts
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Academy of Sciences and Literature
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
Legal form of the carrier: Public corporation
Seat of the wearer: Mainz
Facility location: Marburg
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: History
Areas of expertise: Early modern times
social
history cultural history
church history
Management: Eva-Maria Dickhaut
Employee: 8th
Homepage: Research center for personal fonts

The research center for personal fonts, founded in 1976 and based in Marburg, has been a department of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz since 1984 . It is also an affiliated institute of the Philipps University of Marburg .

As an institution unique in Europe, the Research Center for Personal Writings identifies and catalogs funeral sermons . Her main task until 2005 was the cataloging of the funeral sermons in Hesse and Silesia. Thuringia has been her main focus since 2006. The funeral sermons in Saxony were cataloged by a branch of the research center, which existed from 1991 to 2010 at the Technical University of Dresden .

The research results are partly published in printed form, but partly also - especially as databases - on the Internet. The cataloged funeral sermons have been filmed since 1986, and digitization of the extensive film archive began in 2009.

The research center has been headed by Eva-Maria Dickhaut since 2009 . Your predecessor Rudolf Lenz was the founder of the research center.

advancement

The research center for personal documents was funded by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation until 1980, and then by the German Research Foundation (DFG) until 1983 . Since 1984 the research center for personal fonts has been part of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.

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Over two centuries - from 1530 to 1750, i.e. from the Reformation to the Enlightenment - the custom of printed Protestant funeral sermons flourished. The funeral sermons belong to the genus of personal fonts, i.e. the fonts that were written and printed on birthdays, baptisms, engagements, weddings, inaugurations, anniversaries and finally the death of a person. With their more or less extensive biographies, the funeral sermons are one of the most informative sources on the life and death of people in the early modern period. Since the funeral sermons were printed in large numbers and were considered collectibles as early as the 17th century, surveys have shown - Preserved more than 300,000 of these sources in libraries and archives. As multi- and interdisciplinary sources, funeral sermons are of interest for a wide variety of scientific disciplines: for historians of all directions (e.g. literature, art, culture, but also medicine and pharmacy) as well as e.g. B. for Germanists or theologians.

Focus of work

The main focus of the research center for personal documents was the funeral sermon landscapes of Hesse and Silesia.

Hesse

The following holdings were cataloged and filmed:

Silesia

The following holdings were cataloged and filmed:

  • Wroclaw: Cathedral Library, former City Library, Ossolineum , Voivodeship State Archives
  • Brzeg: Piast Museum
  • Grünberg: Voivodship Public and City Library, Voivodeship State Archives
  • Hirschberg: State Voivodeship Archives
  • Katowice: Silesian Library
  • Krakow: Czartoryskich Library, Jagiellonian Library, PAN Library
  • Liegnitz: Voivodeship State Archives
  • Oels: Castle Church Library
  • Opole-Rogau: Voivodeship Public Library
  • Pless: Branch of the State Voivodeship Archives Katowice, Library of the Castle Museum
  • Teschen: City Library / Tschammer Library

Saxony

The Dresden branch cataloged and filmed the following holdings from 1991 until the end of the project in 2010:

Thuringia

Since 2006, Thuringia has been the focus of the research center for personal fonts at the Philipps University of Marburg. Around 10,000 Thuringian funeral sermons are to be processed.

The following holdings have been cataloged and filmed so far:

Results

Series of publications

Results of the research center's work are published in two series:

  • The "Marburg Personalschrift-Forschungen" are intended primarily for the publication of the funeral sermons catalogs and so far comprise 60 volumes.
  • In the "Funeral Sermons as a Source of Historical Science" you can find the lectures that have been given on the occasion of the five Marburg Personalschrift Symposia.

Website

As a knowledge portal for the personal documents category “funeral sermon”, the website of the research center provides extensive knowledge of the structure, history and source value of funeral sermons. The high density of information as a source of historical research is exemplarily demonstrated at four funeral sermons prepared using multimedia. In addition, a particularly descriptive and scientifically interesting funeral sermon is presented every month in the series of articles "Life in funeral sermons".

Databases

The research center's funeral sermons knowledge portal comprises various databases that were set up in connection with the cataloging of the funeral sermons holdings:

  • Complete catalog of German-language funeral sermons (GESA) with over 228,000 records of funeral sermons that are in libraries and archives of the entire historical German-speaking area.
  • Title page catalog of funeral sermons and other funeral pamphlets (TBK) in the University Library Wrocław / Breslau with 29,107 scans.
  • Thesaurus Locorum (THELO) with over 45,500 historical place names from the early modern period, including geographical location information and sources.
  • Thesaurus Professionum (THEPRO) with more than 30,000 historical occupational titles from the early modern period, including conceptual classification and geographical distribution.
  • Catalog of the security-filmed selected German-language old holdings of the University Library Wrocław / Breslau (SIBRES) with 90,000 data records.
  • Bibliography, the continuously updated directory of funeral sermons literature, with currently 2,719 entries.

literature

Web links

Research center for personal fonts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luise Schorn-Schütte: The promotion of the humanities by the DFG using the example of the funeral sermons project, in: Research Center for Personal Papers. A double anniversary, Mainz 2007 , pp. 41–53.
  2. ↑ Including e.g. B. Tobias Plackwitz: How a journeyman goldsmith traveled to Europe in the 17th century.
  3. ↑ Including e.g. B. Daniel Geißler: Thomas Lange (died 1689). An unforgettable act of murder - adultery and crime in the early modern period.