Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth Bennet is a fellow in Jane Austen studies at the University of Bath.

Regina Kunz

Regina Kunz lives in Homburg (Saarland) and worked as a programmer before her retirement. When she found old letters written in Kurrentschrift in her parents’ estate, she was prompted to learn the cursive and became interested more broadly in the transcription...

Eva Tietjen

Eva Tietjen lives in Saarbrücken, where she worked as the head of a judicial authority’s cash department. Because both her grandparents and her father wrote in Kurrentschrift, she learned to read the cursive at a young age. When she later conducted ancestry...

Hans-Hermann Marx

Hans-Hermann Marx is a resident of Saarbrücken. Before he retired, he worked as a commercial clerk in accounting and controlling. He became motivated to learn Kurrentschrift while researching his own family history and encountering documents he could not...

Monika Gelf

Monika Gelf lives in Saarbrücken. She was a commercial clerk in an automobile firm’s accounting department before retirement. Through research into her family history, she came across documents that were written in Kurrentschrift, which prompted her to...

Y. Nicklaus

Nicklaus is a former project intern.

Hannibal Smith

Hannibal Smith is project manager of the website.

B.A. Baracus

B.A. Baracus, an acrophobe, is another member of the project team. His research interests include material culture.

Templeton Peck

Templeton Peck has been a member of the project team since 2019.

H.M. Murdock

H.M. Murdock is a web developer associated with the project.

Daniel Burckhardt

Daniel Burckhardt is a technical developer at the German Historical Institute

Katharina Hering

Katharina Hering is digital projects librarian at the German Historical Institute.

Jana Keck

Jana Keck is research fellow in digital history at the German Historical Institute.

Simone Lässig

Simone Lässig is director of the German Historical Institute of Washington.

Atiba Pertilla

Atiba Pertilla is a research fellow and digital editor at the German Historical Institute

Emily Kühbauch

Emily Kühbauch is a research assistant for digital history at the German Historical Institute.

Betty Schaumburg

Betty Schaumburg is a former project intern.