Quellenforschungn.

1883 Macmillan's Mag. May 70/2 No one could be more keen and penetrating in what the Germans call Quellenforschung—the collection, and investigation, and testing of the sources of history]

1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 5 325 It does not increase our confidence in the conclusions of the recent ‘Quellenforschung’ among the Germans to find each of no less than five authors claimed as the main or even the sole source of Dio Cassius in his history of the second Punic war.

1932 M. N. Tod Sidelights on Greek Hist. ii. 32 Rarely—I would not say never—are we in our study of them [sc. inscriptions] confronted with problems of Quellenforschung.

1958 C. S. Lewis in Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Nov. 689/3 I wonder how much Quellenforschung in our studies of older literature seems solid only because those who knew the facts are dead and cannot contradict it?

2000 Classical Philol. 95 450 Quellenforschung, along with a corollary assumption that Pliny contributed little material of his own, was once a common approach to the Natural History.