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Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval Cover

Law as a Narrative Source: The Criminal Case Studies of Der Neue Pitaval

Open Access
|Jul 2025

Abstract

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.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.339 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: May 13, 2025
Accepted on: Jun 24, 2025
Published on: Jul 22, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Katharina Herget, Thomas Weitin, published by Ubiquity Press
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