FF:PV1B137 German Terminology of AHS II - Course Information
PV1B137 German Terminology of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archival Science II
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D.
Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Olga Barová
Supplier department: Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archive Studies – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to introduce students to professional terminology in the fields of auxiliary historical sciences and archivial science in German. This course follows on from the course German Terminology of Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Archival Science I and deals specifically with sphragistics, heraldry, genealogy, historical metrology, numismatics and epigraphy, and also the fundamentals of archival science theory and practice.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, students will be able to:
- be familiar with the professional vocabulary of individual auxiliary historical sciences in German and able to actively use it;
- read a specialized text from the relevant auxiliary historical science (at the level of university textbooks, standard manuals and even scholarly studies);
- compose a shorter professional text in German (at the level of a summary or an academic paper). - Syllabus
- 1. Revision
- 2. Sphragistics: definition of the field and its development with an emphasis on German-speaking countries, sphragistic terminology; examples and practice of seal description in German.
- 3. Heraldry: definition of the field and its development with an emphasis on German-speaking countries; heraldic terminology.
- 4. Heraldry: examples and practice of blazons in German.
- 5. Genealogy: genealogical terminology; reading German genealogical sources.
- 6. Historical metrology: metrological terminology; nomenclature of historical measures and weights in German.
- 7. Numismatics: definition of the field and its development with an emphasis on German-speaking countries, sphragistic terminology; examples and practice of seal description in German.
- 8. Epigraphy: definition of the field and its development with an emphasis on German-speaking countries, epigraphic terminology; examples and practice of describing an inscription monument in German.
- 9. Diplomatics of the modern period - Aktenkunde: definition of the field and its development with an emphasis on German-speaking countries; typology of modern documents in German; examples and practice of describing modern official documents.
- 10. Archival science theory and practice: basic archival science terminology.
- 11. Archival science theory and practice: reading specialized texts from archival science theory.
- 12. Archival science theory and practice: reading specialized texts from the history of archival science.
- Literature
- Christian Rohr, Historische Hilfswissenschaften. Eine Einführung, Wien - Köln - Weimar 2015
- Hermann GROTEFEND, Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit 1–2, Hannover 1891–1898 (viz informace vyučujícího)
- FRENZ, Thomas. Papsturkunden des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1986, 114 stran. ISBN 3515046062. info
- Thomas VOGTHERR, Urkundenlehre. Basiswissen, Hannover 2008.
- Juraj ŠEDIVÝ, Hana PÁTKOVÁ (Hg.), Vocabularium parvum scripturae latinae, Bratislava u.a. 2008.
- Die archivalischen Quellen : mit einer Einführung in die Historischen Hilfswissenschaften. Edited by Friedrich Beck - Eckart Henning. 4. durchgesehene Aufl. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2004, xii, 404. ISBN 3825282732. info
- Ochsenkopf und Meerjungfrau : Papiergeschichte und Wasserzeichen vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit : Begleitbuch und Katalog zur Ausstellung des Landesarchivs Baden-Württemberg, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart und der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenscha. Edited by Peter Rückert - Sandra Hodeček - Georg Josef Dietz - Emanuel Wenger. Dritte, nochmals erweiterte. Sttutgart: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, 2009, 127 stran. ISBN 9783000267529. info
- Bernhard Bischoff, Paläographie des römisches Altertums und des abendländischen Mittelalters, Berlin 2009 (4. Auflage)
- Mathias KLUGE (Hg.), Handschriften des Mittelalters: Grundwissen Kodikologie und Paläographie, Ostfildern 2014.
- Teaching methods
- - Vocabulary self-study, reading selected textbooks and handbook texts at home, preparation of answers to questions on these texts.
- Group reading of scholarly texts during the seminar, basic discussions on them in German.
- Group practice of describing scripts, manuscripts, filigrees, charters or other diplomatic relics, analysing historical dating in German. - Assessment methods
- The conditions for awarding credit for the course are active participation in seminars, homework (reading texts, answering questions, writing short excerpts from specialized texts) and a test of knowledge of professional terminology and the ability to work with a specialized text.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught: every week.
General note: Předmět se bude vypisovat pokud bude zapsáno minimálně 5 studujících.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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