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Corpus Soldatenbriefe (1745–1872)

The corpus “Soldiers' Letters” comprises 170 letters from officers, non-commissioned officers and ordinary soldiers, addressed to their families back home. While all letters are written in German in the period from 1745 to 1872, there is a clear focus on letters from the Coalition and Liberation Wars (1792–1815), the German War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71). Although the reasons for writing are largely the same, the writing experience of the three rank groups (officer, non-commissioned officer, enlisted men and common soldier) is very different. The corpus thus offers the possibility of examining the entire breadth of historical everyday writing on the basis of a single type of letter.

The corpus “Soldatenbriefe des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts” has been curated and published in the context of Text+.

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The repository contains different directories:

  • attic: contains the original data
  • data: contains the cureted data as single letters
  • scripts: contains metadata-files as well as scripts being used during curation

The workflow is documented in detail here: https://github.com/deutschestextarchiv/soldatenbriefe/wiki.

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