A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

A project dedicated to the edition and study of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ diary, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Innsbruck

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  • Hase’s Trip Algeria (1839). Telesca for IJCT

    Karl Benedikt Hase was among the French scholars most actively engaged in the early scientific missions to Algeria. As part of his responsibilities advising the Commission Scientifique pour l’Exploration de l’Algérie from his role within the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Hase visited French Algeria in 1839. Based on her work on Hase’s Greek diary

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  • Digital edition of 1837 diary volume published

    The LAGOOS team is delighted to present the text the second surviving volume of Hase‘s diary, that of 1837, on the project’s digital edition platform: https://app.transkribus.org/en/sites/lagoos. Notably in this year, Hase visited the new Greek capital of Athens and met with an array of leading cultural figures including professors of the newly founded University of

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  • LAGOOS featured in Innsbruck’s research magazine “Zukunft Forschung”

    An article in this month’s edition of the University of Innsbruck’s biannual research magazine, “Zukunft Forschung – Das Magazin für Wissenschaft und Forschung der Universität Innsbruck” reports on some of the latest results of the project’s work on Hase’s diary. Read the article here: Following an interview with Eva Fessler from the journal’s editorial team,

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  • LAGOOS Edition launches with text of 1825

    Alongside the project’s analysis of Hase’s work as a scholar and his biography, the LAGOOS team has as a principle aim the digital presentation of the nine surviving years of the original diary text. After preparatory work over the last months, the website for the online presentation of the text is now ready: https://app.transkribus.org/sites/lagoos In

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  • LAGOOS Paper on YouTube – Lev Shadrin at TUC24

    On the 14th–15th February 2024, the LAGOOS team was pleased to be able to present some of the results of the project’s first year at the Transkribus User Conference 2024 (TUC24). The conference took place, following tradition, at the University of Innsbruck, and allowed us the opportunity to catch up with fellow digital humanists, while

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