Research projects in the Academies' Program

The aim of the research center is to reconstruct the spatio-temporal migratory movements of hominids between 3 million and 20,000 years ago.

The “Global Basic Lexicon” (GloBasLex) project collects and documents basic vocabularies of the world’s languages based on published dictionaries. The goal is to build a freely accessible database of parallel word lists for 1,000 basic concepts, covering nearly all sufficiently documented languages worldwide. With around 1,500 languages from every continent, this is becoming one of the most comprehensive resources of its kind.

The research center collects, catalogs, and edits letters written by leading theologians and church leaders during the period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years' War.

The aim is to digitally provide and edit an extensive corpus of documents and texts on the religious and legal history of pre-modern Nepal.

In order to reveal and appreciate the broad context of Jaspers' thinking, as it emerges from his published works, his estate, and his numerous correspondences, a complete edition of his works is being compiled, which will make all relevant texts accessible in their context and available as a systematically interconnected whole.

The aim of the commentaries is, on the one hand, to elucidate the texts, which are generally difficult to understand, from all possible perspectives and, on the other hand, where possible, to attempt a reconstruction of the plays and to classify the authors in terms of literary history.

The task of the research center, which was established in 2005, is to compile a complete and systematic documentation of these stone inscriptions, some of which have only been rediscovered in recent years.

The humanist Philipp Melanchthon was Luther’s most important and closest collaborator in the introduction of the Reformation. His approximately 9,750 surviving letters are fundamental to the study of early modern history.