Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper presents the digital corpus of Der Neue Pitaval (1842–1890), a 60-volume collection of 570 German-language criminal case studies. Edited by Julius Eduard Hitzig and Willibald Alexis, the Pitaval combines legal and literary narrative styles to educate experts as well as entertain a broader public. The corpus, totaling 6.26 million tokens, was created through OCR and extensive manual correction, based on digitized historical sources, and is published as an open access resource.
Source: Journal of Open Humanities Data
DOI: 10.5334/johd.339
Authors: Katharina Herget, Thomas Weitin
Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $367
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
OpenAlex ID: W4412577331