festschrift

noun

1. A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person (often on their birthday).

   “Great preparations are being made and no effort spared to render the meeting a success. [...] The City of Berlin will present a Festschrift.”

   “So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?”

   “At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages.”

   “The result can be an incoherent festschrift, which only the press of the university to which the recipient's career had been dedicated would undertake to publish. Certainly commercial publishers regard such festschriften as drugs on the market.”

   “As much as they are tributes to scholars of extraordinary significance, festschrifts by their very nature are journeys taken together. Nurtured by previous journeys of the participants, they fuse the personal and professional, the sentimental and intellectual, which is exactly what gives any festschrift its special and distinctive character.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of festschrift.

   “So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?”

   “At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages.”

   “Now that I have the privilege of publishing these remarks in Lauri Carlson's Festschrift, I want, by way of conclusion, to briefly address an issue he brought up in his contribution [...] to my Festschrift.”

   “Traditional Festschrifts (or Festschriften) are designed by students and colleagues in honour of a person (usually soon to be or a retiree) they know. This action is very noble. However, Michael Taffart observes in "Gardens or Graveyards of a scholarship?" that the most common failings of Festschriften are lack of "themes, insufficient evidence of strong editorial hands and uneven quality throughout the collection."”