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.
