Syntheses: Online Encyclopedia (Compendium heroicum) (H)

The online encyclopedia “Compendium heroicum” brings together research results of the SFB. This project thus analyzes and informs about the social meaning, semantics and mediality of the heroic from antiquity to the twenty-first century, while also extensively contributing to the question of the meaning that heroic figures have for a society. The Compendium heroicum will be completed during the funding period to become a comprehensive work of reference for the study of heroization processes. This project cooperates with the Free University of Berlin’s “Open Encyclopedia System” project.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 948:  Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age

Applicant Institution Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Project Heads Professor Dr. Ronald G. Asch, until 6/2020; Professor Dr. Achim Aurnhammer, until 6/2020; Professor Dr. Ralf von den Hoff, since 7/2020; Professorin Dr. Anna Schreurs-Morét