Tools and Resources for Researchers

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Tools: Correct and Incorrect Formatting

Incorrect

Incorrect Format Part 1 Incorrect Format Part 2 Incorrect Format Part 3

Correct

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Tools: Example of Italics in Old German Texts

Italics Example 1 Italics Example 2 Italics Example 3

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Tools: Guidelines for Proofreaders

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Tools: Guidelines for Typists

Do not begin work until you have met with Dr. James for training.

Be sure that you back everything up on a second disk.

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Tools: Literary Figures, Deities and Histories

Adonis: In Greek mythology, a beautiful young man who was loved by Venus.

Aesculaps: Aesculapius was the Greek god of medicine, a great healer who possessed the skill to restore the dead to life.

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Tools: Miscellaneous Concepts and Words

Aa: The navigable river on which Mitau is situated.

Altan: A type of balcony built onto the upper story of a house.

Ambra: An excretion of the sperm whale, used to make perfume.

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Tools: People Already Glossed A-K

Abt: Thomas Abbt, 1738-1766, a German philosopher and author, was G.E. Lessing's successor as editor of the Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend. His treatise Vom Verdienste was written in 1765.

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Tools: People Already Glossed L-Z

*Lavater: Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), was a Swiss thinker and theological author. A close friend of J. G. Herder and J. W. Goethe, with ties to J. G. Hamann, Lavater wrote religious poetry and theological works.