Research projects of the Academy

The Global Basic Lexicon (GloBasLex) project collects and documents basic vocabulary from languages around the world 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 all continents, this is one of the most comprehensive resources of its kind. 

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.