Research projects of the Academy

Das Projekt „Global Basic Lexicon“ (GloBasLex) erfasst und dokumentiert Grundwortschätze der Sprachen der Welt auf der Grundlage publizierter Wörterbücher. Ziel ist der Aufbau einer frei zugänglichen Datenbank paralleler Wortlisten für 1.000 Grundkonzepte, die nahezu alle hinreichend dokumentierten Sprachen weltweit abdeckt. Mit rund 1.500 Sprachen von allen Kontinenten entsteht eine der umfassendsten Ressourcen dieser Art. 

The project enables the digital data compiled at the research center "Buddhist Stone Inscriptions in China" to be linked to CBETA, an initiative that digitizes the Buddhist canon handed down in Chinese and makes it accessible according to scientific standards.

In cooperation with the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), endangered cultural assets in Nepal are being documented, recorded, and made accessible online.

The DfG-funded project is working on an open-access publication platform for inscription editions and research data in the field of ancient epigraphy.

The project aims to strengthen medieval studies in Heidelberg, focusing on Romance text philology, linguistics, and literary studies.

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.

The project focuses on the development of a comprehensive philological and historical commentary on the chronicle, which can be analyzed, contextualized, and better understood through specific individual studies.