Speakers
Description
We present a digital humanities project on “epochal biography” in nineteenth-century theological historiography. The project investigates works with title patterns such as “[Name] and his/her time” as a neglected genre between biography, church history, and cultural diagnosis. We are building a curated research database that combines bibliographic metadata, authority data, paratextual information, and material features such as editions, volumes, prefaces, dedications, frontispieces, publishers, and places of publication. Our workflow integrates semi-automated metadata harvesting, data cleaning, validation, and visualization in a web-based research interface. The poster discusses the challenges of transforming heterogeneous library data into sustainable, reusable research software for historical and theological scholarship.