About

EditionBluntschli is a project of the chair for private law with focus on the Swiss Civil Code, University of Zurich, Prof. Dr. Walter Boente. The project has been considerably supported by the Central library Zurich.

The project EditionBluntschli seeks to concentrate various digitalized documents about the work and life of Johann Caspar Bluntschi in one spot and thereby make them (more) accessible to the broader public and other scientists. EditionBluntschli is currently only available as a rudimentary draft edition. Until academic supervision for the edition is found, we are restricted to making available only singular documents about Bluntschli. Nevertheless, we hope that the EditionBluntschli will already have a certain added value in its current form.

Most of the existing documents were automatically transcribed. Due to these automated transcriptions that are not edited by hand, the EditionBluntschli sees itself merely as a starting point for further scientific research. The objective is to make only badly accessible or readable documents as easily accessible as possible and thus pave the way for further scientific projects.

The project has been considerably supported by Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel, Digital Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, Mag. iur. Mag. phil. Bernhard Dengg, Head of the department Law and Economics, Library of the University of Bern, and Dr. Andrea Malits, Head of the departement Data Services and Open Access, College library Zurich. We are very grateful to them.

The digital copies were partly prepared by the responsible editors or came partly from the Central library Zurich, partly from the Sheridan Libraries der Johns Hopkins University and from other archives or libraries. We also benefited particularly from the digital resources of the Bavarian state library . Without the digital copies of those platforms and institutions as well as the broad support of their archivists and librarians, projects like this one would not be possible. Thank you!

Precondition for the initiation, success and continuation of this project is the software Transkribus, which enabled the content indexation of the documents at this large scale in the first place. As representatives of the whole Transkribus Team our warm thanks go to Günter Mühlberger, Andreas Stauder und Berthold Ulreich.

For the graphic design we thank Mr. Berthold Ulreich again as well as Mr. Raphael Schoen and Mr. Dominik Huber from the Department Scientific Visualization and Visual Communication (SIVIC) of the University of Zurich.

The programming of this page is built on the Read&Search-Platform of Transkribus . For the adaptation of the front display to the purposes of our project our heartfelt thanks go to Mag. iur. Marwan Ezzat (Lead programmer) as well as to the generous support of the Department for IT-Projects at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zurich. Our thanks go to its representative for the whole team that has been involved in this project, Mr. Silas Weber, MSc, Head IT-Projects RWF.

Feedback, including suggestions for improvement, are highly appreciated and can be directed to the following email address: iurisprudentia@ius.uzh.ch .