Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Germany
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- Primary Source Material Collections Online for Early Modern History
- (1500-1800; transcriptions in numerous languages, mostly German)
- Including online albums, legal documents, maps, books, oral histories, posters and finding aids.
- Combining resources of a number of Jewish societies and institutes.
- (17th-20th centuries; German, English and other facsimiles)
- Access to facsimiles of German-Jewish periodicals from the Enlightenment until the Third Reich.
- Digitized by various German institutions with support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
- (18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries; facsimiles and some explanatory comments)
- Project by the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main which aims to digitise the library's complete Hebraica and Judaica collection.
- Around 18.000 titles comprising the complete literature of the so-called Wissenschaft des Judentums.
- (late 19th - early 20th centuries; PDF format facsimiles and annotations)
- Full-text access to German newspapers from the Age of Enlightenment
- A joint digitization project of Georg Olms Verlag and the University of Bielefeld
- (18th-19th centuries; facsimiles)
- Online book and manuscript texts from the University of Mannheim,
- particularly strong in history of Mannheim and the "Kurpfalz" [Electoral Palatinate].
- (16th -18th centuries; facsimiles)
- Historical first editions of German-language texts in all fields from the sciences to the humanities.
- A project of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften with support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
- (1650-1900; transcriptions in either HTML or XML format)
- Digital library of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, offering online access to a number of different collections including books, journals, manuscripts, newspapers and maps.
- (17th - early 20th centuries; facsimiles)
- Sixteenth- through early eighteenth-century pamphlets digitized by the University of Augsburg.
- From the collections of the Oettingen-Wallerstein´sche Bibliothek, in cooperation with Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
- Most anonymous, but some written by famous authors such as Johann Fischart.
- (1577-1739; facsimiles)
- Digitized volume of European peace treaties, instruments and tracts
- from the end of the 30 Years War through 1660.
- Great information value, but bogged down by user-unfriendly navigation.
- (1663; parallel Latin and German language facsimiles)
- Map of the German Empire in 1782, almost a century before the unification of the country.
- (1782; zoomable map)
- Economic Encyclopedia, one of the most comprehensive in German-speaking lands with its 242 volumes .
- One of the most important German scholarly sources for the time leading into the industrial revolution.
- A digital project of the University of Trier.
- (1773 - 1858; transcriptions)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (18th century; transcriptions and translations)
- Memoir from Maximilian Joseph von Montgelas to Duke Maximilian Joseph von Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- suggesting reforms that led to the formation of the Bavarian State
- (30 September 1796; German translation of the French original)
- Documents from the 19th century before unification
- (1803 - 1870; German transcriptions)
- Including index access to Marx/Engels Collected Works
- --With ongoing but incomplete transcriptions of the 50 volumes --
- (1837-1895; mostly translations)
- edited by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during the revolutions of 1848-1849.
- (1848-1849; English translations)
- Correspondence and writings of Ferdinand Lassalle, important 19th century German labor leader.
- Digitized by the Historische Kommission, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- (1840-1865; German-language facsimiles)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (19th century; transcriptions and translations)
- 18th-century French map of the Austrian Circle, which included parts of present-day Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland.
- (1792; zoomable map)
- Documents from the Avalon Project
- (1785-1847; transcriptions and translations).
- Flyers, pamphlets, posters from the German Revolution
- A digitization project of the Stadt- und Universitäsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
- (1848-1849; facsimiles)
- German History in Documents and Images: From Absolutism to Napoleon (1648-1815)
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1500-1648; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- German History in Documents and Images: From Vormärz to Prussian Dominance
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1815-1866; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- German History in Documents and Images: Forging an Empire: Bismarckian Germany
- Compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1866-1890; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- German History in Documents and Images: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
- compiled by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
- (1890-1918; images, maps, German transcriptions and English translations)
- Session Proceedings of the Reichstag. A digitization project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- (1867-1918; German transcriptions)
- Note: Die Reichstagsprotokolle 1918-1942 are also available.
- The Sidney Heitman Germans from Russia Collection at Colorado State University
- Documenting immigration to Colorado in the 19th century.
- (19th century; transcripts, audio extracts, photographic facsimiles)
- Over 50,000 images from German colonies.
- A digitization project of the library of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft of the Stadt- und Universitäsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
- (19th -20th centuries; photo images searchable by database)
- Colonies of the German Empire as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
- (1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- The German Empire as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
- (1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Click on "P" within a given chronology for primary source documents.
- (German transcriptions with German and English translations)
- Documents from the Second Reich
- (1870-1878; German transcriptions)
- Includes primary documents in translation from Otto von Bismarck, Heinrich Class,
- Gen. Friedrich von Bernhardi, Adolf Hitler, Helmuth von Moltke, Rosa Luxemburg,
- Kaiser Wilhelm II; of the Internationale and of a Berliner Illustrierte readers' poll.
- (1880-1925; translations)
- The final draft of a bill passed by the Reichstag on May 31, 1883, guaranteeing health insurance to workers.
- It could be considered one of the earliest developments toward a comprehensive social welfare system in Germany.
- (May 29, 1883; facsimile)
- A digitization project of the Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte at the University of Cologne.
- (19th century... plus; facsimiles)
- A major book digitization project of the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte .
- For an overview of subjects, click on "Systematik"
- (19th century; facsimiles)
- The only satirical magazine of Berlin that survived the 1848 revolution in Germany and that existed - after having converted to the liberal-conservative side - for more than 90 years.
- (1848-1944; facsimile journals and images)
- The German Imperial Navy as represented in contemporary postcards, photos, stamps and textual documents.
- (1871-1918; facsimiles and transcriptions)
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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu
