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Digiberichte.de aims to advance research on late medieval and early modern European travel accounts. This project provides digitized editions and research literature on approx. 375 different travels and pilgrimages through Europe in historical times. The bibliographical database allows quick reference for the travel accounts. Due to copy right restrictions only literature from the 19th century and earlier is provided in full text. The majority of the material provided here is based on the so called "analytical bibliographies" of medieval travel accounts that have been edited under the direction of Prof. Werner Paravicini and published by Peter Lang. Initially only bibliographies on German, French and Dutch travel-accounts have been published, but there was always the idea of collecting material for the other European countries (especially Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Scandinavia and East-Europe) als well. Digiberichte.de therefore collects information also for travellers from these countries that left accounts of their journey.

"Bürgermeister Johann Heinrich Waser war eine prägende Gestalt der Zürcher und eidgenössischen Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist dagegen Wasers umfangreiche publizistische Tätigkeit. Sie gibt reichen Aufschluss über die Laufbahn dieses Zürcher Staatsmannes und bietet zugleich faszinierende Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte der Zürcher Elite jener Zeit."