Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law

Sponsors

• The Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft 

considerably facilitated the start-up in Munich through assistence in the obtaining of machines, books, microfilms.

• The Landeszentralbank (Land Central Bank)

supported the maintenance of office machines with their donation and, made possible the purchase of further books.

• The Free State of Bavaria

made possible the continuation of the work on the Summa Huguccionis, and the Distinctiones Monacenses, as well as the cataloguing of the Institute's book holdings in a further programme.

• The
  Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

made rooms, energy, furniture available even before the awarding of "Affiliated Institute status", thus making it possible for the institute to begin operations and welcome visiting research scholars.

• The Kuttner Family

bore the costs for shipping the private library of Stephan Kuttner which, together with other materials, had been packed for the sea trip by the Tibbetts family in many months of work. Over and above that, a donation by Eva Kuttner made it possible for the Institute to obtain badly needed supplies.

• The Spedition Johannes Birkart (haulage contractor)

transported the materials from the port of Hamburg to the University of Munich, and even provided the services of one of their employees, whose help was crucial in the process of customs clearance.

• The Monumenta Germaniae Historica 

has always been ready to listen to all the worries and problems, including  technical problems concerning the Institute's library and provided access to an electronic library catalogue system. 

• The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [German Research Association]

through longterm financial support of the work of E. Vodala and later L. K�ry on "Die kirchenrechtlichen Grundlagen des modernen Strafrechts" (transl. Fundamental Principles of Canonical Law in modern Criminal Law)as part of a larger project, enabled the original mission of Stephan Kuttner to be continued; additionally the DFG supports the continuation of the research on pre-Gratian Canonical Collections by L. Fowler-Magerl, these dealings mainly with the Italian collections done, including the installation of an appropriate database.
 

• The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation

made possible the organization of Stephan Kuttner's correspondence, and of his off-print collection, the work on the Francofurtana  and the Holtzmann estate as well as the purchase of necessary books and supplies and, most important; especially by paying the staff: Professor Gisela Drossbach, PD, Birgit Gilcher, M.A., Johannes Raue and Michaela Bodenstab.

• The Gerda-Henkel-Foundation  

whose support allowed L. Kéry to carry out a further analysis and the completion of "Die kirchenrechtlichen Grundlagen des modernen Strafrechts" (transl. Fundamental Principles of Canonical Law in modern Criminal Law); and  financial support of the "Vatican Manuscript Project", at this time outsourced to the University of Leipzig, Prof. Gero Dolezalek.

To all of these, as well as to the other, mostly anonymous supporters, we would like to express our most sincere gratitude.