Syntheses: Online Encyclopedia (Compendium heroicum) (H)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2016 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

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