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What is a festschrift?

What is a festschrift? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tribute or memorial volume filled with essays and articles by admirers in memory of a colleague.
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This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology comprises a Festschrift, summarizing those proceedings, in honour of Herr Professor Doctor Brooks.
The editors of the festschrift published in Simpson's honour in 2001 confessed in their introduction that they had thought of subtitling the volume Essays in Law, History, Philosophy and Fun.
A Festschrift in celebration of his sixtieth birthday was recently published.
This festschrift consists of 15 contributions pertaining to countries around the world.
This is a superior Festschrift, filled with fresh ideas, and eminently well deserved.
The remaining essays, despite the editors' protestations that this volume is more thematically coherent than the typical Festschrift, are something of a grab bag.

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