Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval
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.
Authors
- Thomas Weitin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9003-5746)
- Katharina Herget (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4034-1067)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Open Humanities Data
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.339
- Primary Topic
- Historical Legal Studies and Society
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00