Research projects in the Academies' Program

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.

The research center is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of historical German and West Germanic legal language—from the beginning of written records in late antiquity through the early 19th century.

The mission of the research center is to catalog and publish annotated editions of Latin and German inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the early modern period up to the year 1650 in Baden-Württemberg.

This interdisciplinary project examines how new vernacular knowledge networks emerged in the Romance-speaking cultural sphere of the Middle Ages, combining methods from textual criticism, historical linguistics, and the Semantic Web.

The project produces digital editions of the temple legends of the South Indian city of Kanchipuram and combines them with documentation on temple architecture, iconography, rituals, and oral traditions.

The Judaic-Romance project is a contribution to the Judeo-French linguistic and literary tradition, which is to be examined for the first time in an interdisciplinary manner in terms of its significance for cultural studies, linguistics, and the history of theology.

An inter-academic research project aimed at creating a new database that will contribute to a better understanding of past, present, and future economic and social challenges.

The Goethe Dictionary is an individual language dictionary that presents Goethe's entire vocabulary in alphabetical order.