Geisteswissenschaften und Theologie
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(2025-10-09)This dissertation is an in-depth case study on the use of machine learning methods for humanities image classification tasks. The task examined is painter attribution on Attic vase paintings, which is a subject with a long ... -
Strukturen des Privaten
(2025-10-06)This work deals with privacy in systematic theological depth. The first part explores the question of what is being discussed and negotiated when the topic of privacy arises. This initial question was based on the observation ... -
Perceptions And Repercussions In Early Imami Legal Discourse. The Case of Ibn Abī ʿAqīl al-ʿUmānī and Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī
(2025-09-08)Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Ibn Abī ʿAqīl al-ʿUmānī and Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī ― later known by the honorary title “al-Qadīmān” (The Two Ancient Scholars) ― are said to be among the central figures in the development ... -
Pragmatic constraints on imprecision and homogeneity
(2025-08-19)The present work investigates the syntactic and pragmatic preconditions for two properties that are at the core of recent work in plural semantics: imprecision and homogeneity. Imprecision is a form of context-dependency ... -
Der Overt Narrator – die Markierung der Erzählinstanz. Die digitale Annotation der narrativen zeitlichen Ordnung zur Identifikation von Erzählinstanzen und -kommentaren in phantastischen Werken des 19. und 20. Jh.
(2025-07-28)This work is dedicated to those narrators who noticeably intervene in the stories they tell - the overt narrators. They evaluate the plot and characters, explain and defend what they are telling, and present themselves in ... -
Korpuslinguistische Zugänge zur nicht-fiktionalen Rede
(2025-06-24)Fictional narratives pose challenging questions for semantic and pragmatic theories because fictional statements have no direct reference to reality and are not considered to be genuine assertions. However, it is known ... -
Ästhetische Erfahrung und italienischer Hermetismus
(2025-06-24)This study explores the epistemic conditions underlying aesthetic experience during the reading of 20th-century Italian poetry. By analyzing immanent processes of consciousness that occur in the act of reading, the work ... -
Asymmetric conjunction at the syntax-pragmatics interface
(2025-06-12)Sentence coordinators in natural language such as and can be asymmetric as the order of the conjoined clauses may influence the interpretation of the coordinated sentence. Unlike the symmetric logical operator of ... -
Strategien zur nachhaltigen Ressourcenversorgung im klassischen Athen
(2025-03-07)The thesis deals with the question of the extent to which the people of classical Athens succeeded in ensuring a sustainable supply of resources for Athenian society. In the first part of the thesis, the author analyses ... -
Positionings in Diaspora Space
(2025-01-31)This study examines the works of four British women poets of South Asian descent—Imtiaz Dharker, Moniza Alvi, Raman Mundair, and Shamshad Khan—within the socio-historical context of early 21st-century Britain. It investigates ... -
On the Earliest Persian Manuscript of the First Gospel
(2025-01-23)The dissertation investigates the textual genealogy of codex Vat. pers. 4, the earliest Persian manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, copied in 1312. The dissertation includes a detailed introduction to the codex and its ... -
Gelebte Hybridität: Das Benediktinerkloster St. Michaelis zu Lüneburg und die Herausforderungen des 16. Jahrhunderts
(2024-12-13)The St. Michaelis Monastery in Lüneburg continued to exist as a Lutheran men's monastery in the 16th century. The monastery was exposed to immense political, economic and religious pressure. This work examines the extent ... -
Die chinesischen Klassiker in Zeiten der Historisierung. Drei Gelehrte aus Sichuan und ihre Begegnung mit der Moderne.
(2024-12-05)Modernity is underlined by a new notion of time, which can be described as linear and progressive. This notion of time marks and provokes the continuous breakup between the past, present and future, which may be defined ... -
Was hat die Wissenschaft mit dem Leben zu tun? – Konkurrierende Wissenschaftsauffassungen am Beispiel der Rezeption der Lebensphilosophie im China der 1920er-Jahre
(2024-11-14)This dissertation examines how Chinese intellectuals in the 1920s reflected on the relationship between science and life through the reception of Lebensphilosophie (particularly the philosophies of Rudolf Eucken and Hans ... -
Zwischen Tradition und Wandel
(2024-10-14)The subject of the previous work was to shed light on the transition from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the North German Lowlands of Lower Saxony. Particular attention was paid to the settlements and especially ... -
Luise Mejer. Briefe 1778 bis 1786
(2024-10-08)Letters from Luise Justine Mejer (1746-1786) to her friend Charlotte Sophie Henriette Kestner, née Buff (1753-1828) and others. With an introduction and annotations. Supplement to Mejer's extensive correspondence with her ... -
Zeichnerische und druckgrafische Zeugnisse einer wissenschaftlichen (Lehr-)Praxis.
(2024-09-26)The so-called 'Osiandermappe' is a collection of drawings, prints and documents from the estate of Friedrich Benjamin Osiander (1759-1822), who was professor of gynaecology and obstetrics and director of the ‘Königliche ... -
Confucian Hermeneutics, Tradition and Religion
(2024-09-06)This thesis investigates the ideas of Confucian hermeneutics (jingxue 經學), tradition, and religion as proposed by the modern Chinese scholar Kang Youwei 康有為 (1858-1927) and his contemporary followers, known as New Kangists ... -
Gewalt gegen syrische Frauen: Eine Feldstudie über die Lebensverhältnisse der syrischen Frauen im Flüchtlingslager Zaatari in Al-Mafrag, Jordanien
(2024-08-09)This Chapter analyzes the living conditions of female Syrian refugees at the largest camp in this world “Zaatari” from a gender perspective, specifically addressing the violence towards women. This research discusses the ... -
Zum Wandel des Priesterbildes im römerzeitlichen Ägypten
(2024-08-07)This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of the traditional priests in Roman Egypt, with a focus on the first centuries, the imperial period. The underlying question is whether the priests as ritual experts ...