This repository contains a TEI-XML encoded collection of letters to and from lexicographer and democrat Daniel Sanders (1819–1897). The letters offer insights into the intellectual landscape, personal exchanges, and everyday writing of the 19th century, reflecting Sanders’ contributions to German lexicography, orthography, general linguistics, and his involvement with the events of the 1848 Revolution.
The repository includes the following directories:
data: Contains all previously published letters to and from Daniel Sanders in TEI-XML.
The complete corpus of Daniel Sanders' letters, including all identified correspondences, is accessible at Daniel Sanders' letters corpus. This interactive table offers a overview of Sanders' letters and users may view the text-image versions of these letters, published on the German Text Archive site, through the provided access points.
Further information on transcription criteria, historical background, and the discovery of Sanders' autographs can be found here. This page gives a brief overview of Sanders' legacy and provides background on the letters' archival context.
The letters in this repository are encoded according to the following standards:
This edition is released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.