Heinrich Scholz and the School of Münster – Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research
Project lead and contact person:
Prof. Dr Niko Strobach
Faculty and department:
Faculty 08 History/Philosophy – Department of Philosophy
Project duration and funding agency:
2023–2035, funding from the Academies' Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany and its Federal States, supervised by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Research question:
Heinrich Scholz (1884–1956) was successively professor in three different academic disciplines (theology, philosophy, mathematical logic), founded the School of Münster as a logician and cultivated a wide network of personal and scientific relationships with important researchers of his time. His very extensive personal papers in the ULB Münster offer an extraordinary opportunity to research academic constellations in the first half of the 20th century.
Project abstract:
The aim of the project is to compile a digital edition of Heinrich Scholz's personal papers and works as well as documents from the School of Münster founded by him and to explore the complex interdisciplinary and personal connections of Heinrich Scholz and his school.
The edition is being produced by the Arbeitsstelle Heinrich Scholz at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Münster in cooperation with the University Library (ULB), in particular the Service Center for Digital Humanities. Cataloguing (with entries for the union catalogue Kalliope) and the creation of high-quality scans at the ULB will be followed by largely automated OCR. Semantic tagging in accordance with the TEI standard will be carried out at the Arbeitsstelle, enabling both a high-quality digital edition and providing the data for the planned visualisation of an international scientific network as a knowledge network. The documents will gradually be made available in various formats in a user-friendly online edition, for which a suitable presentation tool will be developed and made available.
Digital methods to be used:
- scanning
- preprocessing
- text recognition
- TEI
- Semantic Web, RDF modelling
- online presentation of the edition of Heinrich Scholz's complete works, including publication of the scans and various analysis tools
Role of the SCDH in this project:
Methodological and technical support