Jacob Burckhardt. Lectures on the history of the age of revolution III

<p>The project deals with preparing the first edition of Jacob Burckhardt's lectures on the history of the age of revolution. Within the work of the probably most eminent German-speaking historian of the nineteenth century these lectures occupy a position of major importance. The state of the manuscript and its various textual layers make the edition a complex and highly demanding task. Besides constituting the text of the manuscript the edition consists in working out a commentary on the text requiring intensive and far-reaching research.</p>

<p>The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has granted funds for two years with a one-year extension for two part-time researchers and two undergraduate assistants. The edition has been getting ahead very well and is running according to schedule. A second phase of another two to three years has to be applied for in autumn 2003.</p