On this page I list selected digital sources and tools that I need for teaching source criticism and (German) text interpretation.
Historical enrolment registers of European universities
A compilation of the registers by university. Most of the registers have been digitised. The editions of the registers provide insights into the recording practices of universities from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
https://wiki.genealogy.net/Universit%C3%A4tsmatrikel
Wörterbuchnetz
Digital network of German dictionaries. The comprehensive search across a large number of dictionaries helps to decipher unclear terms that we find in the sources.
https://www.woerterbuchnetz.de/
Info: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rterbuchnetz
Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens (PDF)
Dictionary of German superstition, a folkloristic reference work. It can be useful for deciphering terms or metaphors that are no longer familiar to us today.
Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens (HdA), herausgegeben von: und 10 Bde. 1927-1942
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband1
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband2
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband3
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband4
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband5
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband6
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband7
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband8
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband9
https://archive.org/details/handworterbuchdesdeutschenaberglaubensband10
See also the PDF-volumes at De Gruyter (Login required):
https://www.degruyter.com/serial/hwbdab-b/html?lang=de
There is also a CD-ROM edition of the HdA, although it only runs on older systems, for example on MAC OSX 10.6. The CD-ROM can be borrowed from various libraries, for example here: https://katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/titel.cgi?katkey=66175550
With the help of Virtual Box you can install an older computer system (OSX 10.6) virtually on a current computer system. You then install the HdA software from the CD-ROM on this virtual environment and can thus search the HdA more easily (full text search across all volumes). Older computer systems can be found at archive.org