Research projects of the Academy

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 project aims to link the standardized data from the HAdW research centers and make it accessible by setting up central interfaces.

The collaborative project between the HAdW, the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts, and the Musicology Department at Heidelberg University is researching continuities and discontinuities in the transition from court music culture to urban music culture around 1800.

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 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.

Der Humanist Philipp Melanchthon war Luthers wichtigster und engster Mitarbeiter bei der Einführung der Reformation. Seine insgesamt etwa 9.750 erhaltenen Briefe sind grundlegend für die Erforschung der Geschichte der frühen Neuzeit.

Die Forschungsstelle erarbeitet ein Großwörterbuch zur historischen deutschen und westgermanischen Rechtssprache – vom Beginn der schriftlichen Überlieferung in der Spätantike bis ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert.