Thesaurus Nominum Auctorum et Mortuorum

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The aim of the Thesaurus Nominum Auctorum et Mortuorum (THENOM) project is to index a total of around 90,000 early modern names from Hessian, Silesian, Saxon and Thuringian funeral sermons and to provide the biographical information obtained from this in the THENOM online database.

History of the database

In addition to their original function as funeral sermons for the Protestant upper and middle classes, printed funeral sermons from the years between 1530 and 1800 are important sources for research into the early modern period. In addition to other institutions, they are also identified and cataloged by the Research Center for Personal Papers at the Philipps University of Marburg , a department of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. From around 33,000 funeral sermons cataloged so far, almost 56,600 author names and 33,000 deceased names were collected. These roughly 90,000 names of people from the early modern period form the starting point and basis for the “Thesaurus Nominum Auctorum et Mortuorum” project, a database of the names of authors and deceased in early modern funeral sermons.

The biographical sections of the funeral sermons are of particular value for a large number of historical questions. Some of the information contained therein will be included in the catalogs of the series Marburg Personalschriften-Forschungen published by the Research Center for Personalschriften. You thus contain z. In some cases, more biographical information about these people is available on the Internet than before, for example in the Common Authority File (GND) or in the general catalog of German-language funeral sermons (GESA).

The Thenom database was conceived by Rudolf Lenz in autumn 2007 and, at his request, was funded by the German Research Foundation from 2009 to 2011 . Since the project could not be completed within the approved funding period due to the significantly reduced volume of applications by the DFG, the Volkswagen Foundation also granted follow-up funding for a further two years at the request of Rudolf Lenz. The data entered into the Thenom database are freely accessible in the Marburger Personalschrift-Forschungen series published by Rudolf Lenz up to Volume 50. The data from the catalogs up to volume 44 were used, which the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz made available to Thenom employees as text files without any preconditions as part of the "scientifically necessary collaboration". In the summer of 2012, the Thenom SQL database was put online with limited access on a server at the Philipps University of Marburg .

literature

  • Jens Kunze: Thesaurus Nominum Auctorum et Mortuorum. In: Person files. Workshop of the Working Group on Electronic Publishing of the Union of German Academies of Sciences in cooperation with the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the German National Library. September 21 to 23, 2009 at the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Abstracts, papers, presentations, p. 36f. ( PDF file; 5.9 MB ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Overview of the series Marburger Personalschriften-Forschungen . Website of the research center for personal documents. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  2. ^ The online database full catalog of German-language funeral sermons (GESA) . Website of the research center for personal documents. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ Cooperation paper between Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Rudolf Lenz, Dr. Eva-Maria Dickhaut and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz