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The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography project image
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The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography

Ce projet reconstituera les trajectoires familiales, professionnelles, sociales et politiques des 213 membres du CIO cooptés avant 1972.
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Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions

Anschauungsbeispiel einer generischen Edition: Korrespondenz zwischen dem Philologen G. Paris (1839-1903) und einem seiner Schüler, dem Philosophen W. Lutosławski (1863-1954).
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Life Histories of Theban Tombs

LHTT focuses on a cluster of tombs in the Theban Necropolis (Egypt). It investigates the evolution of the hillside and explores the history of the tombs from early 2nd mill. BCE to 20th c. CE.
WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language project image
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WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

The WoPoss project aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings in Latin from the prehistory of the language up to the 7th century CE, through a linguistically annotated, diachronic corpus.
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Digital Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Digital LIMC)

Digital LIMC contains what we know about the iconography of Greek, Etruscan and Roman mythology, both in ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman art as well as in neighbouring Mediterranean cultures.
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Briefwechsel von Leonhard Euler mit Christian Goldbach

Digital edition of nearly 200 letters between Leonhard Euler and Christian Goldbach (1729-1764), a key source for 18th-century number theory.
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DaSCH – Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities

This project contains material about DaSCH and events organised by DaSCH. All documents are made available in the original language of the presentations.
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Premiers théâtres romands

The project documents theatrical practices in the French-Swiss regions between the 15ᵗʰ and 16ᵗʰ c. It is a part of the SNSF project focused on versified public communication in French (15ᵗʰ-16ᵗʰ c.)
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Mapping the Scriptures in Western Sephardic Literature

Studies the role of the Bible in Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities of the Western Sephardic diaspora (1550–1800), combining literary and historical research with digital humanities methods.
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Online Edition of Jacob Bernoulli's Reisebüchlein

Digital edition of Jacob Bernoulli's 195-page travel journal (1676-1683), documenting his journeys across Europe with facsimiles and dynamic visualizations.
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Tall al-Hamidiya Online

The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.
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Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH)

Die RicH-Studie erforscht die Operationen narrativer Kompetenz und deren qualitative Unterschiede anhand eines Novizen-Experten-Vergleichs zwecks empirischer Fundierung eines Progressionsmodelles.