Editing project
Ongoing
Edition of the Livonian Civil Defense Reports, 1905–1906
Duration
2024 - 2027
A comprehensive collection of documents (approx. 2,800 pages) relating to these self-defense measures has been preserved. This collection is part of the Livonian Knights’ depository in the Herder Institute’s document collection (DSHI 190 Livonia 322–329). It constitutes a multifaceted source of information on these turbulent times. The collection includes reports from the self-defense forces to the District Council in Riga, as well as information on the organization of the self-defense forces, a chronicle of events, propaganda material from all parties to the conflict, maps, newspaper articles, translations of Latvian writings, and much more. The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to produce a high-quality printed selected edition of the documents with introductory chapters and commentaries, and second, to attach to the entry records in the online finding aid for the document collection the transcriptions (typescripts) and digitized versions of the original documents, which were created by Gert v. Pistohlkors as early as the 1970s and later digitized and captured via OCR.
Dokumente zum Selbstschutz der Landkreise Wenden und Walk aus der Zeit 1095-1906 (Sign. DSHI 190 Livland 322, Mappe 7). Dokumentesammlung Herder-Institut, Foto: Claudia Junghänel, Free access - no reuse
