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In the first part the author introduces the notion of the (classical) Cartan-matrix \(C(R_ R)\) of a right artinian ring R and formulates main topics of the first two chapters: By a well known result of Eilenberg, \(C(R_ R)\) is invertible over the integers if \(g.\dim (R)<\infty\). So there are the following problems: (a) For which classes of rings is the converse of Eilenberg's theorem true; (b) is \(\det (C(R))=1\) if g.dim(R) is finite. The author collects the known facts, illustrated by (counter- )examples but proves also some new results. In chapter II he considers group-graded rings and the corresponding graded Cartan-matrices, generalizing a concept, introduced by \textit{G. V. Wilson} [J. Algebra 85, 390-398 (1983; Zbl 0519.18012)], \textit{E. L. Green} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 279, 297-310 (1983; Zbl 0536.16001)] and others: For a group G a ring \(R=\oplus_{g\in G}R_ g\) is called G- graded, if (i) \(R_ gR_ h\subset R_{gh}\) and (ii) \(R_ g\subset J\), J the radical of R, for all \(g\neq e\). If R is G-graded and right artinian, the graded Cartan-matrix \(C_{gr}(R_ R)\) has coefficients in the group-ring \({\mathbb{Z}}G\). Then he shows (Satz 7.7) that \(C_{gr}(R_ R)\) has a left inverse if g.dim(R) is finite. In II, {\S}9 the author considers zero-relation algebras and describes two classes of zero- relation algebras where \(C_{gr}(R)\) invertible (over \({\mathbb{Z}}G)\) implies g.dim(R) is finite. In II {\S}8 he deals with the generalized Nakayama conjecture. In (8.12), (8.14), (8.19) he proves this conjecture for some classes of graded rings. The last two chapters are rather independent of the above described part. In chapter III the author considers (Morita) self-duality. Main result is: If R is semi-distributive artinian then there exists an ideal \(I_ 0\) in R \((I_ 0\) is constructed in (11.16) and rather small) such that R/I is a weakly symmetric self-dual ring, if \(I\supset I_ 0\). As so often in the topic of self-duality the proof is complicated and technical. In chapter IV he studies minimal projective resolutions for modules over artinian, semi-distributive l-hereditary rings. For example he shows for the incidence-algebra of a finite poset that (only) the first three terms of the minimal projective resolution of a simple module can be defined in a combinatorial way. The whole thesis contains a lot of examples.