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Reichman, Edward. "Two Jewish Physicians in Early Modern Germany: Koppel (Jacob) Mehler (AKA Copilius Pictor) and his son Juda Coppillia Pictor." Aschkenas 33, no. 1 (May 12, 2023): 167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asch-2022-2012.
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Abstract The Mehler family was a distinguished German family from Bingen in the 17th and 18th centuries comprised of numerous rabbis and communal leaders. In this essay we draw attention to the physicians of the Mehler clan, a father and son in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Though graduating just forty years apart, they represent the transition of the medical training of students of Ashkenaz (Poland, Germany, and France) from Italy to Germany. Prior to the mid seventeenth century, a young Jewish student longing to attend medical school had essentially one option, the University of Padua. By the early eighteenth-century German universities began to welcome Jewish students. Our father and son physicians straddle this period and reflect the transition of Jewish medical training from Italy to Germany. We have identified some remarkable archival material allowing us to provide also an illustrated history of their medical careers.
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Beletskaya, Olga A. "Clavier Music of Germany in the 17th Century." ICONI, no. 2 (2021): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33779/2658-4824.2021.2.030-040.
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17th century German clavier music presents a capacious stratum of culture of the Baroque period, which is of enormous interest. Frequently it is perceived as an enormous transition to J.S. Bach’s musical legacy, but upon more assiduous examination it turns out that this stratum has its own value, although, obviously, it could not do otherwise than create the footing for the musical culture of the following 18th century. The present article has an overview character and is meant to summate the most important phenomena which could give an overall perception of the chronological order of the formation of clavier genres and forms of the pre-Bach era, about the outstanding composers of clavier music, and of the intersection between various national styles in their heritages.
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Auer, Jens. "FregattenMynden: a 17th-century Danish Frigate Found in Northern Germany." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 33, no. 2 (October 2004): 264–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2004.00023.x.
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Fagyal, Zsuzsanna. "Phonetics and speaking machines." Historiographia Linguistica 28, no. 3 (December 31, 2001): 289–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.28.3.02fag.
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Summary This paper shows that in the 17th century various attempts were made to build fully automatic speaking devices resembling those exhibited in the late 18th-century in France and Germany. Through the analysis of writings by well-known 17th-century scientists, and a document hitherto unknown in the history of phonetics and speech synthesis, an excerpt from La Science universelle (1667[1641]) of the French writer Charles Sorel (1599–1674), it is argued that engineers and scientists of the Baroque period have to be credited with the first model of multilingual text-to-speech synthesis engines using unlimited vocabulary.
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Assenzi, Lucia. "Translation, the Vernacular Debate, and the Evolution of Literary Writing Style Between Italy and Germany." Linguistica 63, no. 1-2 (December 27, 2023): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.63.1-2.213-231.
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The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the cultural contact between the Italian and German vernacular debates in the 17th century, and to show how this cultural contact introduced new legitimising arguments in favour of the vernacular in the German-speaking context while also providing a renovating impulse to German literary style. The paper investigates one exemplary case of such cultural contact: Prince Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen’s Anmutige Gespräch (1619), the translation of Giovan Battista Gelli’s dialogue Capricci del Bottaio (1546). Gelli was an influential member of the Accademia Fiorentina, a 16th century Florentine language academy. In his Capricci, Gelli debates the legitimacy of the Florentine vernacular as a scientific and literary language. Through an analysis of Prince Ludwig’s commentaries to his translation of the Capricci, the paper shows how Prince Ludwig applied Gelli’s arguments in favour of the vernacular to the German context, and how these arguments resonated even years later in the writings of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, a German language academy led by Prince Ludwig from 1617 to 1650. As translation was seen as a form of ‘language work’ both by the Accademia Fiorentina and by the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, the most salient linguistic features of Ludwig’s translation is analysed in the paper in order to show how the theoretical discussion on translation was implemented in the translation process. This investigation shows how translating from Italian promoted a more conversational literary style that distanced itself from the pompous, formulaic chancery language that was still seen as exemplary of good language use in 17th century Germany.
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Saunders, Steven, and Paul Walker. "Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in 17th-Century Germany." Notes 48, no. 3 (March 1992): 863. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/941702.
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TROPIA, Anna. "From Paris to Gotha: The Circulation of Two Parisian Jesuit Courses between the 16th and the 17th century." Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 4 (March 31, 2019): 75–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v4i0.11470.
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This article traces back the history of a collection of manuscript academic course-notes taken by a German student at the end of the sixteenth century and today preserved at the Research Library of Gotha (Thuringien, Germany). It focuses, in particular, on two of them, which transmit texts dictated in Paris: they testify to the large circulation of academic doctrines through the practice of the copy of the course-notes by students.
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Toporkov, Andrey L. "“Dream of the Virgin” in Russian Handwritten and Folklore Traditions (17th – the Beginning of the 21st Century)." Studia Litterarum 8, no. 2 (2023): 268–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-268-287.
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“The Dream of the Virgin” is one of the most widespread Christian Apocrypha. It is known among many European peoples, mainly Orthodox and Catholic, namely Belarusians, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Gagauz, Greeks, Irish, Spaniards, Italians, Macedonians, Germans, Poles, Portuguese, Romanians, Russians, Serbs, Slovenes, Ukrainians, French, Croats, etc. The “Dream of the Virgin” is most widely represented in the folk traditions of Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Europe. Some countries have an old scholarly tradition of studying this plot. Such well-known philologists as Alexander Veselovsky in Russia and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in Romania wrote about it as early as the 19th century. In the 20th century, this text was studied a lot in Italy, Germany, Romania, Russia, etc. The article proposes a preliminary classification of the main genre versions of the “Dream of the Virgin” in Russian manuscript and folklore traditions.
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Schock, Flemming. "1624–1697) (Gespräch und Zerstreuung. Mechanismen barocken Unterhaltungswissens am Beispiel Erasmus Franciscis (1624–1697)." Daphnis 44, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 320–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04403009.
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The article discusses the miscellanies of Erasmus Francisci, one of the most prominent and commercially successful authors of “curious” literature in late 17th century Germany. In particular, it traces the two mutual mechanisms or principles that guide his mediating of knowledge: ‘Unterhaltung’ and conversation. Both contributed to the functionality of Francisci’s textual collections that edited and popularized learned knowledge to a wider audience.
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Daly, Aoife, Marta Domínguez-Delmás, and Wendy van Duivenvoorde. "Batavia shipwreck timbers reveal a key to Dutch success in 17th-century world trade." PLOS ONE 16, no. 10 (October 29, 2021): e0259391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259391.
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Ocean-going ships were key to rising maritime economies of the Early Modern period, and understanding how they were built is critical to grasp the challenges faced by shipwrights and merchant seafarers. Shipwreck timbers hold material evidence of the dynamic interplay of wood supplies, craftmanship, and evolving ship designs that helped shape the Early Modern world. Here we present the results of dendroarchaeological research carried out on Batavia’s wreck timbers, currently on display at the Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. Built in Amsterdam in 1628 CE and wrecked on its maiden voyage in June 1629 CE in Western Australian waters, Batavia epitomises Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) shipbuilding. In the 17th century, the VOC grew to become the first multinational trading enterprise, prompting the rise of the stock market and modern capitalism. Oak (Quercus sp.) was the preferred material for shipbuilding in northern and western Europe, and maritime nations struggled to ensure sufficient supplies to meet their needs and sustain their ever-growing mercantile fleets and networks. Our research illustrates the compatibility of dendrochronological studies with musealisation of shipwreck assemblages, and the results demonstrate that the VOC successfully coped with timber shortages in the early 17th century through diversification of timber sources (mainly Baltic region, Lübeck hinterland in northern Germany, and Lower Saxony in northwest Germany), allocation of sourcing regions to specific timber products (hull planks from the Baltic and Lübeck, framing elements from Lower Saxony), and skillful woodworking craftmanship (sapwood was removed from all timber elements). These strategies, combined with an innovative hull design and the use of wind-powered sawmills, allowed the Dutch to produce unprecedented numbers of ocean-going ships for long-distance voyaging and interregional trade in Asia, proving key to their success in 17th-century world trade.
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Alyabieva, Valentina. "From the History of Combinatorial Analysis: From Idea to Research Schools." Вестник Пермского университета. Математика. Механика. Информатика, no. 2(57) (2022): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1993-0550-2022-2-14-25.
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The article explores the development of combinatorial analysis from the idea to scientific schools. Combinatorial research was stimulated by G.W. Leibniz's ideas about combinatorial art and special geometric analysis – Analysis Situs in the 17th century. Various combinatorial problems were solved by L. Euler in the XVIII century. The first scientific school of combinatorial analysis arose by K.F. Hindenburg in the second half of the 18th century in Germany. Combinatorial-geometric configurations were studied in the 19th century. A. Cayley and J. Sylvester coined the term tactics for a special branch of mathematics, of wich order is proper sphere. The modern combinatorial schools are Gonin's school in Perm and the combinatorial Rybnikov's school in Moscow.
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Bursal, Nasuhi. "THE USE OF INTEREST AS AN ELEMENT OF COST IN GERMANY IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES." Accounting Historians Journal 13, no. 1 (March 1, 1986): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.13.1.63.
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Debate still continues in the United States of America over the inclusion of interest as an element of cost. The practice was accepted as early as 1558 in Germany, and has been integrated into accounting theory by Schmalenbach in this century.
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Schmoeckel, Mathias. "Radikale Frühaufklärung in Deutschland." Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung 106, no. 1 (August 27, 2020): 388–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zrgk-2020-0013.
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AbstractRadical early Enlightenment in Germany. The habilitation paper of Martin Mulsow, now enrichend, provides for a new in-depth look into the scientific discussions of the 17th and 18th century. Though Mulsow treats many subjects and touches issues of law only occasionally, the implication of this new publication reveals many new insights also for legal historians. We see that there was a wide spread belief into the existence of scientific liberty, although there was no law or rule to prove this assumption. Though we find no new Gabriel Naudé, Pierre Bayle, or John Locke, the German professors used their debate in order to extend the topics and opinions which could lawfully be discussed. The hermeneutical issues involve insight also for the history of legal evidence.
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Naza Dönmez, E. Emine. "Rethinking the German Tokens Uncovered in Amasya, Harşena Fortress and Maidens’ Palace Excavations." Höyük, no. 12 (November 1, 2023): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37879/hoyuk.2023.2.201.
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Amasya, Harşena Fortress which rises from the banks of Yeşilırmak is comprised of three parts. From top to bottom, Harşena Fortress which is also called the upper fortress, the area in front of the rock-cut King Tombs which was called the Maidens’ Palace at the middle and the area called the Lower Palace, today’s Hatuniye District, at the bottom. The 2009-2010 excavations were done in an area north of Harşena Fortress’ cannon tower; excavation seasons of 2011-2013 were done in the area, front of the Royal Tombs in Maidens’ Palace area; excavations of 2017-2019 in Harşena Fortress were done in the area named as the Mosque Area, located at the entrance of the castle, South of the Watchtower. Coin-like tokens which were known from the ancient-time have been utilized for many different reasons. Coins are metallic money which were minted by the political authority, that were used in the trade and had economic value. When the Roman numerical system has been abandoned for the Arabic numerals the usage of tokens for calculation in Europe has also been abandoned. After 16th century tokens were utilized as some type of medal. City of Nuremberg in Germany had been the main producer of tokens. After 17th century tokens got smaller and turned into the game chips. To this day 8 German tokens were uncovered in the excavations in Amasya, Harşena Fortress and Maidens’ Palace. Amasya had always been a trade hub in the Ottoman period. The silk produced in the city had also been a developing trade endeavor in XIX century Amasya. The Germans who settled in the Amasya in this period made contributions to the silk production in the city. Especially this trade with the Germans can explain the German tokens found in the Amasya Fortress.
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Renault, Rachel. "Eine moralische Ökonomie der Steuern?" Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 62, no. 2 (November 1, 2021): 303–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2021-0012.
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Abstract This article analyses the conflicts over imperial taxation in 17th-18th century Germany at local level. As imperial taxes have been mostly studied for the 16th century and usually from the perspective of Vienna, observing them from below gives a completely different perspective. One can observe, in particular, very strong and long-lasting conflicts between subjects and territorial princes. The article defends the idea that taxation conflicts are not only due to the size of the tax burden, but also linked to social and political considerations. They provide an excellent vantage point for analysing the Empire from below and the popular politics that emerged within the imperial body politic.
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Pindl, Kathrin. "Grain Policies and Storage in Southern Germany: The Regensburg Hospital (17th-19th Centuries)." Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook 59, no. 2 (November 27, 2018): 415–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2018-0014.
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Abstract This paper is concerned with the storage policy of the citizens’ hospital of Regensburg in the Early Modern period (focus: 18th century). The main purpose consists of (1) a source-based micro-study that helps to derive insights into the mechanisms of how experiences and expectations have influenced decisions by a pre-modern institution, (2) an analytical scheme for describing and evaluating the process of decision-making based on narrative evidence, and (3) the suggestion of analytical categories. These should allow a differentiation between time-invariant human behaviour that determines economic decisions, and time-specific factors which can be used to separate possibly “pre-modern” patterns from seemingly modern-day capitalist economic performance.
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Alterauge, Amelie, Sandra Lösch, Andrea Sulzer, Mario Gysi, and Cordula Haas. "Beyond simple kinship and identification: aDNA analyses from a 17th-19th century crypt in Germany." Forensic Science International: Genetics 53 (July 2021): 102498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102498.
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Schmidt, Uwe E. "German Impact and Influences on American Forestry until World War II." Journal of Forestry 107, no. 3 (April 1, 2009): 139–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/107.3.139.
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Abstract Natural resources of North America ensured the existence of German immigrants in the late 17th century. In Pennsylvania and North Carolina, measures for forest protection and sustainable forestry were invoked at an early date. Efforts were based on inventory of the resources and controlled use. During the 18th and 19th centuries, German emigration was boosted by the scarcity of wood. Proto-industry in Germany strongly depended on wood and coal resources, causing negative effects in the forest and environment. Increasing population and developing industrialization devastated the forests. International scientific contact in forestry started during the American Revolutionary War. German influence on American forestry began in 1873, when the Austro-Hungarian government hosted an international exhibition in Vienna. German forest scientists and politicians focused on sustainable forestry and initiated a fundamental forest education system in the United States. An intensive German–American exchange on a professional basis took place until the beginning of World War II. The acquired historical knowledge on this subject demonstrates that German and North American environmental perception had interacted considerably.
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Henneton, Lauric. "“Fear of Popish Leagues”: Religious Identities and the Conduct of Frontier Diplomacy in Mid-17th-Century Northeastern America." New England Quarterly 89, no. 3 (September 2016): 356–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00545.
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“Fear of Popish Leagues” weaves together various threads across the Atlantic from Scotland to Mexico and from Germany to the Caribbean to explore the makeshift diplomacy of Massachusetts Puritans and the Catholics from Acadia across confessional boundaries in the frontier environment of mid-Seventeenth Century America and in the context of civil wars in Europe.
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Mauleti, Eston Kamelang. "VISUALISASI MELALUI PENDEKATAN METAFORA PADA POSTER NORTH meet SOUTH = UNITY." Jurnal Da Moda 3, no. 1 (October 28, 2021): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.35886/damoda.v3i1.224.
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Poster is a two-dimensional visual media with large format that is useful for conveying commercial, social, cultural, political messages. Large format is used to display messages through images. Images on a poster are generally large and have a strong appeal so that it can attract the attention of the public immediately see it. The development of posters began in the late 17th century until now. European countries have an excellent poster tradition. Germany is one of them, the growth of posters in the country became part of the life of its modern society. Many moral and social messages that inspire reason are delivered routinely. Plaque-Sozial e.V. und vom Bund Mitteldeutscher Grafdesigner or social poster association and graphic designer Germany regularly holds competitions and exhibitions on an international scale. In the middle of 2016, a competition and exhibition was held for the third time with the theme "Vision". Participants consisted of artists and poster designers from all over the world. Poster works by the author were also selected by the jury and exhibited at The Association of German Museums for Galvanotechnik e. V. Leipzig, Germany takes place from August 13-25, 2016. The author displays poster visualization through a metaphorical approach.
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Hamans, Camiel. "Taalpatriottisme van Becanus tot Grotius." Roczniki Humanistyczne 69, no. 5 Zeszyt specjalny (2021): 25–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh21695sp-2.
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In this study the linguistic ideas of Goropius Becanus (1519-1573) and his followers Hendrik Laurensz Spieghel (1549-1612), Simon Stevin (1548-1620) and Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) are studied. Goropius Becanus has a poor reputation for his fantastic etymologies, which have been ridiculed by, for example, Leibniz. However, Becanus’ ideas about the position and value of his Dutch mother tongue have been influential for more than a century, as is demonstrated. He was not only held in high esteem in the Low Countries but also in Germany, where a similar linguistic patriotism flourished in the 17th century. Goropius Becanus and his supporters should be appreciated as linguistic patriots who fought for equal rights for their language.
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Sedláčková, Hedvika, Jan Musil, Petr Kubín, Jaroslav Podliska, Dana Rohanová, Pavel Staněk, and Kateřina Vaďurová. "Číše s choboty v kontextu gotického a renesančního skla v Čechách a na Moravě / Claw beakers in the context of Gothic and Renaissance glass in Bohemia and Moravia." Archeologické rozhledy 74, no. 2 (September 30, 2022): 275–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.35686/ar.2022.11.
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Glass claw beakers, practically unusable vessels, make up a small group among glass finds in central Europe in the 15th–17th century. This article deals mainly with new finds from settlement sites in the Czech Republic. An analysis of the chemical composition of the glasses of claw beakers reveals that some specimens have the same composition of glass produced in Bohemian glassworks, while the composition of the glass of other beakers corresponds to glassworks in Tyrol or the northern Alps and the production of glassworks in the western part of Germany.
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Berezhnaya, Natalia. "Imperial Rhetoric in the Publicism of the Palatinate before the Bohemian Coronation of Elector Frederick V." ISTORIYA 14, no. 7 (129) (2023): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207987840027449-2.
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At the turn of the 16th — 17th centuries, the imperial discourse was changing, the new German princes were determined to protect the “true faith”, and they were not against revising the agreements reached by their predecessors. Confessional and imperial propaganda was on the increase in Germany. Did the publicism of the beginning of the 17th century reflect the religious social and political demarcation between the Catholic and Evangelical estate? In the Palatinate funeral sermons and speeches of professors of the University of Heidelberg, which were distributed among the subjects of the Palatinate and fellow Calvinists, the apology of the “true faith” came to the fore, and the place of the “imperial estate” was occupied by the Evangelical and Catholic estates, which were opposed to each other. However, in the writings that had spread throughout Germany, imperial rhetoric did not recede into the background, but was transformed along with the image of the Empire itself. This was evidenced by an anonymous text of 1618 of Palatinate origin on the reasons for the destruction by the troops of the Evangelical Union of the fortress of Udenheim, erected by the bishop of Speyer, a member of the Catholic League. In the 1570s — 1580s the Empire was presented as a common home for Protestants and Catholics, an assembly of estates headed by the emperor, and before the Thirty Years’ War the rhetoric of the texts of the Palatinate was increasingly moving towards understanding the Empire only as an elite community without a clear leader. This source allows us to speak about two motives of the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V’s decision to demolish the Udenheim fortifications: the protection of the Empire and the protection of hereditary possessions, and both of these motives are indissoluble linked — the security of hereditary lands and subjects could only be ensured in the absence of threats to the Empire. Frederick V is shown in the text as one of the main persons responsible for the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation on the banks of the Rhine. The defense of the Empire for him meant the defense of his own corner of the imperial home — territories that had traditionally, since the 14th century, been under the influence of the Rhine palatine counts.
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Steinrücken, B. "Evidence for precise calendrical observations in the 17th Century at Bruchhauser Steine, Olsberg, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany." Astronomische Nachrichten 323, no. 6 (December 2002): 581–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1521-3994(200212)323:6<581::aid-asna581>3.0.co;2-n.
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Giannoulis, Markos. "Die Wiederentdeckung von Byzanz: Die kretische Ikone von Göttingen und die Koimesis-Darstellung in der byzantinischen und postbyzantinischen Epoche." Byzantinische Zeitschrift 113, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 751–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bz-2020-0033.
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AbstractWhat are the similarities and the differences of icons from the same workshop depicting the same subject? An important portable icon with the representation of the Dormition of the Virgin, hitherto unknown, preserved today in the Art Collection of the University of Göttingen, helps answering this question. The studydeals with the fascinating journey of this icon from Venetian-dominated Crete in the 15th century to Germany of the 18th century. Furthermore, this paper shows that the icon of Göttingen belongs to a group of a numerous icons that they all derive from the same icon-workshop of the renowned Cretan painters Andreas and Nikolaos Ritzos in Candia. Finally, it turned out that this icon was also the inspiration for Cretan painters of the 17th CE such as Emmanuel Lambardos and Viktor.
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Boguszewska, Kamila Lucyna. ""Poplars and Cypresses” – that is the phenomenon of popularity of Populus Italica in the Kingdom of Poland in the 19th century." Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych 16, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 40–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/teka.2307.
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Lombardy poplar is a tree with a distinctive cypress shape, which grows very fast and has little soil requirements. The species probably originated at the turn of the 17th and 18th century in Lombardy, where it spread via France and Germany, arriving at the territory of the Crown in the second half of the 18th century.
However, it was only in the 19th century that its popularity reached its peak. The Lombardy poplar was being planted as a popular avenue plant. It was also an important part of the park complexes designed in a sentimental landscape style inspired by the work of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The article analyses the phenomenon of the popularity of poplar trees on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland in the context of the then literary and philosophical programme of the garden, whose two key sources are to be found in Arcadian literature – J. Milton's Paradise Lost, J. J. Rousseau's works such as New Heloise or Jacques Dellille's Gardens.
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Constantinescu, B., D. Cristea-Stan, I. Kovács, Z. Szökefalvi-Nagy, and I. Poll. "Mineral pigment studies on ancient ceramics and glass artifacts from commercial settlements on Danube border between Muntenia and Dobruja." International Journal of PIXE 28, no. 01n02 (January 2018): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129083519500025.
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We analyzed the compositions of mineral pigments for some ceramics and glass items excavated from the commercial settlements on Danube at the border between Ottoman Empire (Dobruja) and Romanian Principalities — Piua Petrii and Dinogetia–Garvan, using external milli-beam PIXE. The problem of mineral pigments used for Turkish ceramics (16th–17th centuries) is very important for the understanding of commercial routes of late medieval period. We determined the elemental compositions of green, red, brown and especially blue pigments. The most interesting case is the one of the Co-based blue pigments. The origin of the raw materials for these pigments in the 17th century could be the mining district of Schneeberg in Germany, characterized by the presence of Ni traces, our study revealing a possible trade route connection between Saxony and Ottoman Empire. As concerning glass samples, we analyzed fragments of Byzantine painted bracelets identifying manganese (mixed with iron) and copper for blue–black bulk-glass color, respectively for green bulk-glass color, a mixture of lead and tin for yellow painting and powders of gold and silver for some painted areas.
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Alterauge, Amelie, and Cornelia Hofmann. "Crypt Burials from the Cloister Church of Riesa (Germany) – Changes of Funerary Customs, Body Treatment, and Attitudes to Death." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica, no. 35 (December 30, 2020): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6034.35.05.
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The cloister church of Riesa (Saxony, Germany) contains two burial crypts which were used from the 17th to 19th century AD by local noble families, namely the barons von Felgenhauer, Hanisch/von Odeleben and von Welck. The crypt beneath the altar originally contained 50 inhumations of which about 30 are still preserved at present, either as coffins and/or mummies, while the northern crypt contained eight interments.
During the last two centuries, the crypts have experienced major changes which could partly be reconstructed through historical records, photographs and oral history. The aim of the investigations, supported by the parish and the city museum, was to document the current state-of-preservation and to identify the inhumations by combining different types of evidence.
The coffins were visually inspected and dated by typo-chronological comparisons, and inscriptions were transliterated whenever possible. Material, fabrication, clothing type and dating of the garments were determined during costume analysis. The mummified remains were subjected to a morphological investigation, including X-rays. Different body treatments resulting in natural or artificial mummification could be observed. In selected cases, samples for aDNA analysis were taken to test for kinship between individuals, and stable isotope analysis was performed for the reconstruction of diet, origin and age of weaning. Probable identification could only be achieved for the individuals with contextual information; however, the bioarchaeological analyses are still ongoing.
The coffin ornamentation and inscriptions as well as the garments show chronological changes as well as individual preferences from the 17th to 19th century, most distinctive in the children burials. Faith in God and hope of resurrection remain constant attitudes to death, but familial affiliation becomes an important factor in early modern noble burials.
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Schraut, Sylvia. "„Doch das bei weitem schwierigste Ehehindernis ist das der Verwandtschaft“: Forbidden Marriage Between Incest Taboo and the Fortune of the Noble Family in 17th-18th-Century Germany." Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 44 (October 14, 2005): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fof.v44i3.132998.
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During the 17th and 18th century the German nobility called a planned marriage a pro-ject of marriage, because marriages had a long phase of planning, in which more then two people were involved. Noble projects of marriage had at least the function to create ever-lasting friendship between two noble families. This custom was part of the economic and po-litical strategies of the families involved and had often effects on the development of whole territories. Noble projects of marriage consequently concerned the family law as well as the law of the nobility and the church.I shall discuss the strategies of marriage of a special social group, the so-called Cath-olic German Reichsritterschaft during the 17th and 18th centuries. This noble group was re-garded as a strong partner of the German Imperial Catholic Church, the Reichskirche. Last but not least its members owed their remarkable political careers to the Church, but their idea of marriage were never-the-less in opposition to the canonical marriage laws; in fact, in planning exactly these political careers, which they owed to the Church, their concept of marriage clashed with the impediments to marriage that too close kinship posed. My paper aims at ana-lysing the marriage law of the Church as a papal instrument of influence over this special group of nobles.
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Banionis, Juozas. "Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics." Lietuvos matematikos rinkinys 42 (December 20, 2002): 375–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lmr.2002.32935.
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Antanaitis is one of the 20th century Lithuanian professional mathematicians, who trained pedagogues at Teachers' Colleges in the 3–4th decades. After World War II S. Antanaitis worked in the Gymnasium of the 16th of February in Western Germany. He won distinction in research into mathematics. S. Antanaitis published articles on mathematics. There was a critique, some articles touching upon questions of methodology and mathematics history. Articles on mathematics history must be paid attention to because they threw the light both on the portraits of the famous creators in the period of elementary mathematics (until 17th century) and their merits in this scientific field. One of those articles was up for a famous astronomer and mathematician Johan Kepler (1571–1630). Another one was an original book about a scientist of Ancient Greece Archimedes (287 BC–212 BC). S. Antanaitis having made a thorough analysis of works of European science historians presented these science personalities and underlined importance of their works for the development of the higher mathematics.
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Makała, Rafał. "Nawiązania do tradycji nowożytnej w ceglanej architekturze wczesnomodernistycznej północnych Niemiec." Porta Aurea, no. 17 (November 27, 2018): 94–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/porta.2018.17.04.
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One of the manifestations of the so called ‘conservative modernism’ was the reference to the brick building tradition in Northern Germany. The trend was primarily associated with the activities of Fritz Schumacher and Fritz Höger in Hamburg and Bremen in the 1920s and 1930s, but the genesis of this architecture dates back to the first decade of the 20th century and is associated with the attempts to shape North German patriotism. Just as in the art of neo-Gothic, brick architecture of ‘conservative modernism’ was meant to express the ‘North German Identity’, and in fact help in the creation of identities of the Bismarck Germany. Like the late neo-Gothic architecture, this architecture was perceived as a kind of ‘Hanseatic style’, reflecting the specificity (perceived in a mythologized way) of the Hanseatic League as a prefiguration of the New Germany and their power in maritime trade. Early-modern architecture continued to refer to the art of the past. However, the way of referring to the past changed: with only few quotes from the old art, with a considerable simplification of historical styles’ and so did the historical point of reference. In addition, the modernists became more interested in the brick building of the 17th and 18th centuries, the times of the Baroque and early Neoclassicism. Tis is evident in the works of the most important architects of North German modernism, including Fritz Höger, Fritz Schumacher, or Bruno Möhring but also works of lesser-known, though certainly interesting artists like Johann Garlef, Erich Blunck or Eugen Prinz. The interest of the North German architects of early modernism in brick construction is an element of a wider process that had been thriving in Northern Germany since the early 1900s. Interestingly enough, this process was equally intense in great artistic centres (Hamburg and Bremen) as well as in less-significant cities which were looking for their identity or tried to recreate it, as was the case in Kiel, Lubec or Szczecin. Tis paper is an attempt to show the evolution of this architecture and its most important features. The examples have been selected to show the most important characteristics of this architecture and its geographical range.
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Andreiushkina, Tatiana N. "THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEXAMETER IN GERMAN POETRY." Philological Class 26, no. 1 (2021): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2021-26-01-02.
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The article traces the history of the development of the hexameter on German soil: from the use of the Leonin hexameter in the Middle Ages and the Reformation, the mixed Latin-German hexameter in the period of humanism (in the form of carmina eroica) and the German hexameter in the 18th–19th centuries (mainly in the form of elegy, epigram and idyll) to derivatives and ironic forms of the XX century (memorandum, instructive poem, etc.). Klopstock played a significant role in the spread of the hexameter in German poetry, bringing a fresh stream to German poetry by rejecting the prevailing in the 17th century predominantly alternating Alexandrian verse. Voss also inspired his contemporaries to create distiches with his translations of Homer’s poems. The flowering of the hexameter falls on the period of classicism: Goethe and Schiller created the best and purest examples of this poetic meter. Goethe and Schiller during the Enlightenment, Hölderlin, Novalis and Kleist in romanticism, Rückert, Platen and Mörike in post-romanticism introduced variety and movement into the hexameter by means of different types of caesura in verse. Austrian poets (Saar, Weinheber, Bachmann) appeal to hexameter as a classic form of German verse, Hauptmann uses it to create a large poetic form. The poets of the pre-war and war period (Colmar, Schröder, Holthusen) seek in him an aesthetic support in an era of timelessness. Poets of the former GDR (Brecht, Bobrowski, Müller), poets of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grünbein, Herbst) use it sporadically and in a transformed form, but at the same time take into account the thematic and genre traditions associated with this antique meter. Most foreign researchers, when determining the hexameter, speak of its dactylic component and only from the middle of the 20th century some of them (Kayser, Mönnighof) note, in addition to the spondees, the possibility of using chorees in the initial syllables of a verse.
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Andreiushkina, Tatiana N. "THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEXAMETER IN GERMAN POETRY." Philological Class 26, no. 1 (2021): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2021-26-01-02.
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The article traces the history of the development of the hexameter on German soil: from the use of the Leonin hexameter in the Middle Ages and the Reformation, the mixed Latin-German hexameter in the period of humanism (in the form of carmina eroica) and the German hexameter in the 18th–19th centuries (mainly in the form of elegy, epigram and idyll) to derivatives and ironic forms of the XX century (memorandum, instructive poem, etc.). Klopstock played a significant role in the spread of the hexameter in German poetry, bringing a fresh stream to German poetry by rejecting the prevailing in the 17th century predominantly alternating Alexandrian verse. Voss also inspired his contemporaries to create distiches with his translations of Homer’s poems. The flowering of the hexameter falls on the period of classicism: Goethe and Schiller created the best and purest examples of this poetic meter. Goethe and Schiller during the Enlightenment, Hölderlin, Novalis and Kleist in romanticism, Rückert, Platen and Mörike in post-romanticism introduced variety and movement into the hexameter by means of different types of caesura in verse. Austrian poets (Saar, Weinheber, Bachmann) appeal to hexameter as a classic form of German verse, Hauptmann uses it to create a large poetic form. The poets of the pre-war and war period (Colmar, Schröder, Holthusen) seek in him an aesthetic support in an era of timelessness. Poets of the former GDR (Brecht, Bobrowski, Müller), poets of the Federal Republic of Germany (Grünbein, Herbst) use it sporadically and in a transformed form, but at the same time take into account the thematic and genre traditions associated with this antique meter. Most foreign researchers, when determining the hexameter, speak of its dactylic component and only from the middle of the 20th century some of them (Kayser, Mönnighof) note, in addition to the spondees, the possibility of using chorees in the initial syllables of a verse.
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Alterauge, Amelie, Manuel Kellinghaus, Christian Jackowski, Natallia Shved, Frank Rühli, Frank Maixner, Albert Zink, Wilfried Rosendahl, and Sandra Lösch. "The Sommersdorf mummies—An interdisciplinary investigation on human remains from a 17th-19th century aristocratic crypt in southern Germany." PLOS ONE 12, no. 8 (August 31, 2017): e0183588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183588.
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Lüder, Britta, Gerald Kirchner, Andreas Lücke, and Bernd Zolitschka. "Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions Based on Geochemical Parameters from Annually Laminated Sediments of Sacrower See (northeastern Germany) Since the 17th Century." Journal of Paleolimnology 35, no. 4 (May 2006): 897–912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-6188-5.
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de Viana, Augusto. "Belgian Missionaries in 17th Century Marianas: The Role of Fr. Peter Coomans and Fr. Gerard Bouwens." Philippiniana Sacra 46, no. 136 (2011): 85–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.55997/ps1005xlvi136a4.
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Belgians comprised some of the European missionaries who helped administer the nascent Spanish colony in the Mariana islands. The Christian mission there was founded by Fr. Diego Luis de Sanvitores in 1668 and the task of conversion of the natives to the new faith was entrusted to the Jesuits. Missionaries from Belgium added to those from other nations such as Italy, Germany and Moravia. They were chosen because of their ability to endure harsh conditions. The first decades of the Marianas mission was fraught with extreme difficulties most especially the resistance of the natives to the changes brought by Christianity. Two missionaries, Fr. Peter Coomans and Fr. Balthazar Dubois, paid with their lives while serving as missionaries in the Marianas. Despite the difficulties, they sowed the seeds of the Christian mission in the island and ensured the continued existence of the colony. Fr. Coomans and Fr. Gerard Bouwens played an important part in the islands as superiors in the Mariana Mission. Fr. Bouwens later made recommendations for good governance in the islands. An important role played by these two missionaries was that they recorded the history of the colony and recorded some important aspects of the culture of the native Chamorro people and the challenges faced by the mission including the serious challenges such as the martyrdom of fellow missionaries and the native rebellions which lasted until 1695. For his important role in serving the mission, Fr. Bouwens was hailed as its second founder.
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Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, and Mihhail Lotman. "The derivatives of hexameter in Estonian poetry and their link with the traditional hexameter." Sign Systems Studies 40, no. 1/2 (September 1, 2012): 94–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2012.1-2.06.
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The sources of the theory of the Estonian hexameter can be traced back to 17th century Germany, where the long syllables of ancient hexameter were replaced with stressed ones, and short syllables with unstressed ones. Although such understanding is clearly inadequate, to a great extent it still holds ground in contemporary approaches. Hexameter, like any other verse metre, can be treated from two angles. First, as an abstract scheme which is realized in different texts, while the degree of realization can vary. Second, hexameter can be viewed as a prototype and actual texts create a certain space further from or closer to the prototype. In both cases questions arise, first, about the limits of hexameter, and second, whether a given text has features of a random hexameter or reflects the author's conscious intent.
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Bernet, Claus. "Das deutsche Quäkertum in der Frühen Neuzeit Ein grundsätzlicher Beitrag zur Pietismusforschung." Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 60, no. 3 (2008): 213–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007308784742430.
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AbstractQuakerism is the first Anglo-American religion that has gained ground in Germany, especially in the north, in the second half of the 17th century. Contrary to older church historiography, this was not a marginal phenomenon. Rather, stable congregations developed, as did a Europe-wide network of missionary work and a differentiated culture of polemic writings. These points of encounter allowed the Quakers to establish contact with supporters of Böhme and radical pietists while at the same time enabling an Antiquakeriana campaign against them. At the center of this study lies the question for the religious-historical positioning of Quakerism. The author argues that due to impulses of extra-ecclesiastical pietism, positions arose that transgressed Christianity's frame of reference. Therefore the reference to the early modern understanding of esoterism has proven especially useful.
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Cho, Hyowon. "Vergangene Vergängnis: Für eine Philologie des Stattdessen." arcadia 52, no. 1 (May 24, 2017): 74–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2017-0005.
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AbstractBetween Erich Auerbach and Walter Benjamin, there existed a remarkable friendship, which on the one hand manifested itself as an unobtrusive disputation, and yet which on the other hand could be considered an unintended collaboration toward an old-new ideal of philology. Auerbach claims that with the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Western European literature reached the climax of the figuralism that Auerbach, if belatedly, wants to bring to the fore. Benjamin, in contrast, finds energy for the revolution in the surrealistic love that traces back not to Dante, but to the Provençal poetry which Auerbach regards merely as preliminary to Danteʼs literary achievement. In his The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin highlights the concept of creatureliness, whose significance for his philosophy of history is no less than that of justice. Auerbach, for his part, does not find its expression in the Germany of the 17th century, but in the France of the 16th century, namely in the work of Michel de Montaigne. However, Montaigneʼs creatureliness is rooted in sermo humilis, which is best embodied in the story of Peter who denied his Lord Jesus Christ three times. By contrast, German creatureliness detects its dissolution in the idea of natural theatre that Benjamin locates in the work of Franz Kafka. Sermo humilis is the perfection of figuralism, whereas the idea of natural theatre means reversal of allegory. The perfected figuralism and the reversed allegory cooperate in the idea of the philology of instead (Philologie des Stattdessen), whose task it is to make bygone the futility of worldly things.
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Nazmutdinov, B. V. "The Contribution of the History of Concepts to the Critical Understanding of the State." Lex Russica 77, no. 3 (March 28, 2024): 140–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2024.208.3.140-157.
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The paper develops the problems of critical understanding of the phenomenon of the state. The author comprehends the contribution of the German history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte) and the British Conceptual History to the critical understanding of the emergence of the state as a concept and social phenomenon in Modern times. Representatives of these lines of thought trace the appearance of the English State and the French État to the 17th century, the German Staat to the second half of the 18th century. Russian followers of these traditions explore the historical and ideological context of the emergence of the state in the 15th– 18th centuries. The researchers emphasize that in Germany the concept of the state is formed two centuries later than that in France, but it immediately becomes political and subordinates the rest of the meanings of the word, creating a theoretical basis for the development of state studies and public law, while the French état and English state in the meaning of the state have long been used in relation to non-state political and even nonpolitical phenomena. An important contribution of the history of concepts was the search for the ideological and social foundations of modern state legal terms and models — state sovereignty, citizenship, legal and social state, endowed with meaning primarily in the continental tradition. The author continues the study of the problems of critical understanding of the state, which began in the article «Critical Concepts of the State and their Significance for Russian Jurisprudence: Introduction to the Problem» (Lex russica. 2020;6:122-138).
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Nawata, Yūji. "Phantasmagoric Literatures from 1827 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sin Chaha, and Kyokutei Bakin1." Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 54, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 145–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/jig541_145.
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The magic lantern as a projection technique, which has existed in Europe since the 17th century (at the latest), and phantasmagoria as a large-scale magic lantern occupy a prominent place in the world history of visual culture. As they spread across the world, these technologies encountered written cultures and produced fantastic literature—phantasmagorical literature, so to speak. This article analyzes phantasmagorical literature written or published circa 1827 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) of Germany, (SIN Chaha, also called [SIN Wi], 1769–18452 of Korea, and (KYOKUTEI Bakin, 1767–1848) of Japan. This is a demonstration of a novel approach to comparative literature, which compares literary works in the light of global technological history, and this is an attempt to give an insight into the world history of visual culture from the perspective of 1827.
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Zubairov, D. M. "125th anniversary of the founding of the first department of medical chemistry and physics in Russia." Kazan medical journal 68, no. 3 (June 15, 1987): 226–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/kazmj96105.
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The historiography of biological chemistry is just beginning to develop, but the need for research in this field is becoming more and more evident every day. In this connection, a specialized symposium was organized by Professor A. N. Shamin at the V All-Union Biochemical Congress (January 27-31, 1986). Undoubtedly, the origins of biochemistry can be found in the speculations of ancient thinkers on the nature of fermentation and on the role of air and food in the life of living organisms. And yet the emergence of biochemistry as a science is truly connected with the formation of chemistry in the late 17th century, which is especially characteristic of the formation of biochemistry in Germany, where M. A. Blanco, O. Yu. Yelina and M. G. Kaplanskaya clearly trace its two sources: the chemistry of natural compounds and physiology.
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Nikolskaia, Kseniia D. "Lutheran Romance. Missionaries of Tranquenar in Search for Life Companions." Oriental Courier, no. 1 (2022): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s268684310021415-4.
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The Danish East India Company (Dansk Østindisk Kompagni) was established in Europe at the beginning of the 17th century. Its stronghold in India was the city of Trankebar (Dansborg Fortress), located 250 km from Madras. In the early years of the 18th century, the first Lutheran missionaries, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau, appeared on the Coromandel Coast. It was at this time that the Danish Royal Mission, financed by King Frederick IV, was established in the Indian South. It consisted mainly of Germans, graduates of the University of Halle in Saxony, a bastion of pietism in Germany. As time passed, the number of European clergymen working in the Tranquebar grew, as did the number of local converts. Working in a large Christian community required a great deal of time and energy on the part of the missionaries. At some point, they began to use the Tranquebar neophytes for this work as well. But this did not solve all problems. Three years after their arrival in Tranquebar, the missionaries decided that some of them, Ziegenbalg himself, Plütschau, and Johann Ernst Gründler, who had just arrived in India, should marry women from Germany who would be reliable assistants in their difficult work. The prospective brides had to conform to the pietist concept of piety and devotion to the Lord. The article relates the missionaries’ search for brides in Europe and the two partnerships that resulted: Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg married Maria Dorothea Salzmann after a trip to Europe from 1714 to 1716, while his friend ohann Ernst Gründler married at Tranquebar without waiting for a bride from far away from Europe. His bride of choice was Utilia Elisabeth. These matrimonial histories provide a clearer picture of what “pietism in action” looked like in the history of the missionary movement while enlivening the history of the Christianization of the East with personal details and adding human traits to the founders of Orientalism-as Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg certainly is for Tamilism.
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Viikberg, Jüri, Heldur Sander, and Raivo Kalle. "Alien Trees and Shrubs with the Complements Saksamaa (Germany) and Saksa (German) in Early Written Language and Folklore." Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies 7 (July 2024): 147–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ybbs7.07.
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The study of alien species has become more and more relevant today. In particular, the influence of alien species on the local nature is studied, but more and more studies have also begun to appear on how alien species affect the local language and culture. In this article, we took a look at non-native trees and shrubs that have been called “Saksamaa” and “Saksa” [German]. Germany was synonymous with foreign countries in early literature. We investigated the motives behind the names given to these species, how long they were in circulation and how these names were later replaced. For this purpose, we studied lexicons, archival texts and historical literature. „German“ complemented plant names are most common in Estonian and Finnish – with fir, beech, larch, elder, Persian walnut tree, poplar, Swedish whitebeam and false spiraea coinciding. The prevalence of plant names can be divided into three: a) names found only in the early written word, which are absent in the oral tradition; b) vernacular plant names with the suffix “German” which were entered into dictionaries and supported by official terminology; c) individual fop names with the suffix “German” collected from the people. Alien species that were planted as fruit trees, ornamental trees, medicinal plants and forest trees were called by these names, but imported pharmaceutical drugs, fruits and wood were also called “German”. Mainly, non-ntive species were named after a local tree, to which “German” was added in front of the name. Later, those names were either replaced by adaptations of German plant names or new Estonian plant names were created. Several trees could be called by one name. For example, larches, firs and alien spruce species, which differed from the local spruce by the silvery colour of their needles, have been called the “German spruce”. In the 17th and 18th centuries, all foreign trees that were frost-resistant could be called “German trees.” Back in the 20th century, people spontaneously called foreign trees that were different from domestic trees by the names of “German”.
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Hanovs, Deniss. "THE ARISTOCRAT BECOMES A COURTIER… FEATURES OF EUROPEAN ARISTOCRATIC CULTURE IN THE 17th CENTURY." Via Latgalica, no. 1 (December 31, 2008): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/latg2008.1.1590.
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As John Adamson outlined in his voluminous comparative analysis of European court culture, „in the period between 1500 and 1750 a „Versailles model” of a court as a self-sufficient, situated in a free space, architectonically harmonious city-residency remote from the capital city, where the king’s household and administration was located, was an exception.” The Versailles conception and „model” both architectonically and in terms of practical functioning of the court was spread and secured in the 18th century, developing into a model of absolutism which was imitated to different extents. The spectrum of the adoption of the court of Louis XIV by material and intellectual culture reached from the grand ensembles of palaces of Carskoye Selo in Peterhof, Russia, Drottningholm in Sweden and Sanssouci in Germany to several small residences of the German princes’ realms in Weimar, Hanover, and elsewhere in Europe. Analyzing the works of several researchers about the transformation of the French aristocracy into court society, a common conclusion is the assurance of the symbolic autocratic power by Louis XIV to the detriment of the economic and political independence of the aristocracy. In this context, A. de Tocqueville points at the forfeiture of the power of the French aristocracy and its influence and a simultaneous self-isolation of the group, which he defines as a „caste with ideas, habits and barriers that they created in the nation.” Modern research, when revisiting the methods of the resarch on the aristocracy and when expanding the choice of sources, is still occupied with the problem defined in the beginning of the 19th century by A. de Tocqueville: The aristocracy lost its power and influence, and by the end of the 18th century also its economic basis for its dominance in French society. John Levron defines courtiers as functional mediators between the governor and society, calling them a „screen”.1 In turn, Ellery Schalk stated that in the time of Louis XIV the aristocracy was going through an elite identity crisis, when alongside the old aristocracy involved in military professions (noblesse d’épée), the governor allowed a new, so-called administrative aristocracy (noblesse de robe) to hold major positions and titles of honour. Along with the transformation of the traditional aristocratic hierarchy formed in the early Middle Ages, which John Lough described as an anachronism already back in the 17th century, also the status of governor and its symbolic place in the aristocratic hierarchy changed. It shall be noted that it is the question of a governor’s role in the political culture of absolutism by which the ideas of many researches can be distinguished. Norbert Elias thinks that an absolute monarch was a head of a family, which included the whole state and thereby turned into a governor’s „household”. Timothy Blanning, on the other hand, thinks that the court culture of Louis XIV was the expression of the governor’s insecurity and fears. This is a view which the researcher seems to derive from the traumatic experience of the Fronde (the aristocrats’ uprising against the mother of Louis XIV, regent Anna of Austria), which the culturologist K. Hofmane interpreted from a psychoanalytical point of view and defined Louis XIV as a conqueror of chaos and a despotic governor. In the wide spectrum of opinions, it is not the governor’s political principles which are postulated as a unifying element, but scenarios of the representation of power, their aims and various tools that are combined in the concept of court culture. N. Elias names symbolic activities in the court etiquette as the manifestation of power relations, whereas M. Yampolsky identifies a symbolic withdrawal of a governor’s body from the „circulation in society”, when a governor starts to represent himself, thereby alienating himself from society. George Gooch in this way reprimanded Louis XV as he thought this development would deprive the royal representation from the sacred. In turn, Jonathan Dewald in his famous work „European Aristocracy” noted that Louis XIV was not the first to use the phenomenon of the court for securing the personal authority of a governor, and refers to the courts during the late period of the Italian Renaissance as predecessors of French court culture. What role did the monarch’s closest „viewers” – the courtiers – play in this? K. Hofmane by means of comparison with the ancient Greek mythical monster Gorgon comes to conclusion that the court had to provide prey for the Gorgon (the king), who is both scared and fascinated by the terrific sight (of power and glory). The perception of the court as a collective observer implies the presence of the observed and worshiped object, the king. The public life of Louis XIV, which was subjected to the complicated etiquette, provided for the hierarchical access to the king’s public body. Let’s remember the „Memoirs” of Duc de Saint-Simon that gives a detailed description of the symbolic privileges granted to the courtiers, which along the material gifts (pensions, concessions and land plots) were tools for the formation of the identity and the status of a new aristocrat/courtier – along with the right to touch the king’s belongings, his attire, etc. The basis for securing the structure of the court’s hierarchy was provided by the governor’s body along the lines mentioned above, which according to the understanding of representation by M. Yampolsky was withdrawn from society and placed within the borders of the ensemble of the Versailles palace. There, by means of several tools, including dramatic works of art, the governor’s body was separated from its symbolic content and hidden behind the algorithms of ritualized activities. Blanning also speaks about a practice of hiding from the surrounding environment, thereby defining court culture as a hiding-place that a governor created around himself. It was possible to look at a governor and thereby be observed by him not only on particular festivals, when a governor was available mostly for court society, but also in different works of visual art, for example, on triumphal archs, in engravings, or during horse-racings.
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Ilchenko, N. M., and Yu A. Marinina. "“Life as Suffering”: the Motive of Revenge in the Novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann “The Marquis de la Pivardière” and the Novel by J. Janin “The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman”." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 1 (January 27, 2021): 121–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-1-121-134.
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The motive of revenge is analyzed on the basis of the French topos, considered as a space of crime and punishment. It is noted that the novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann and the novel by J. Janin are united by attention to fate as a catastrophic concept inscribed in the picture of life in France. The relevance of the study is associated with the problems of the formation of national identity, national image by romantics of Germany and France. It is shown that the German romantic, who relied on fantasy as a means of understanding and cognizing life, became a model for J. Janin in the perception of “observed material”. Special attention is paid to the artistic embodiment of life as an “ugly abyss” in which the heroines of E. T. A. Hoffmann and J. Janin find themselves. The results of a comparative analysis of the novel, the action of which belongs to the second half of the 17th century are presented in the article. But the writer discusses the morals of the heroes from the point of view of the romantic canon, and the novel, the action of which is attributed to the end of the 20s of the 19th century. The novelty of the research is connected with the fact that the drama of human existence (female) is viewed as a result of the fragility of earthly existence, the loss of faith in the rationality of the universe. This approach made it possible to analyze the national forms of romanticism, the individual approach of Hoffmann and Janin to understanding the moral and the sinful.
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Perrie, Maureen. "The Concept of a ‘Peasant War’ in Soviet and Western Historiography of the ‘Troubles’ in Early 17th-Century and Early 20th-Century Russia." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 2 (April 2019): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.2.4.
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The concept of ‘peasant wars’ in 17th- and 18th-century Russia was borrowed by Soviet historians from Friedrich Engels’ work on the Peasant War in Germany. The four peasant wars of the early modern period were identified as the uprisings led by Ivan Bolotnikov (1606-1607), Sten’ka Razin (1667-1671), Kondratiy Bulavin (1707-1708) and Emel’ian Pugachev (1773-1775). Following a debate in the journal Voprosy istorii in 1958-1961, the ‘first peasant war’ was generally considered to encompass the period c.1603-1614 rather than simply 1606- 1607. This approach recognised the continuities in the events of the early 17th century, and it meant that the chronological span of the ‘first peasant war’ was virtually identical to that of the older concept of the ‘Time of Troubles’. By the 1970s the term, ‘civil wars of the feudal period’ (based on a quotation from Lenin) was sometimes used to define ‘peasant wars’. It was recognised by Soviet historians that these civil wars were very complex in their social composition, and that the insurgents did not exclusively (or even primarily) comprise peasants, with Cossacks playing a particularly significant role. Nevertheless the general character of the uprisings was seen as ‘anti-feudal’. From the 1980s, however, R.G. Skrynnikov and A.L. Stanislavskiy discarded the view that the events of the ‘Time of Troubles’ constituted an anti-feudal peasant war. They preferred the term ‘civil war’, and stressed vertical rather than horizontal divisions between the two armed camps. Western historians, with the notable exception of the American historian Paul Avrich, generally rejected the application of the term ‘peasant wars’ to the Russian uprisings of the early modern period, regarding them as primarily Cossack-led revolts. From the 1960s, however, Western scholars such as Teodor Shanin (following the American anthropologist Eric Wolf) began to use the term ‘peasant wars’ in relation to the role played by peasants in 20th-century revolutionary events such as those in Russia and China. Some of these Western historians, including Avrich and Wolf, used the term not only for peasant actions in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, but also for peasant rebellions against the new Bolshevik regime (such as the Makhnovshchina and the Antonovshchina) that Soviet scholars considered to be counter-revolutionary banditry. The author argues that, in relation to the ‘Time of Troubles’ in early 20th-century Russia, the term ‘peasant war’ is not entirely suitable to describe peasant actions against the agrarian relations of the old regime in 1905 and 1917, since these were generally orderly and non-violent. The term is more appropriate for the anti-Bolshevik uprisings of armed peasant bands in 1918-1921, as suggested by the British historian Orlando Figes.
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Radvilienė, Violeta. "Non refert quam multos libros, sed quam bonos habeas: Vilniaus evangelikų reformatų sinodo bibliotekos XVII a. knygos Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių bibliotekos Retų spaudinių skyriaus fonduose." LMA Vrublevskių bibliotekos darbai 11 (2022): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.54506/lmavb.2022.11.12.
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This article aims to give an overview of the 17th-century documents that are now kept in the Rare Books Department of the Wroblewski Library and that belonged to the library of the Vilnius Evangelical Reformed Synod until February 1941. This library was established 465 years ago, at the time of the establishment of the Vilnius Evangelical Reformed Synod, Unitas Lithuaniae. The library had a difficult time surviving since its very establishment; it was burned, moved from Vilnius to Kėdainiai and also to Slutsk, a town where the Radvila princes set up some schools (the Reformers were deprived of a right to establish higher schools in Lithuania). Extant books from the library of the Slutsk Gymnasium shed light on how books in various scholarly disciplines were registered, classified, and marked. After the World War I, the library was returned to Vilnius, where it continued to be looked after, there were attempts to compile and publish its catalogue. In 1940, when Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union, the Vilnius Evangelical Reformer Synod was terminated, and its library was given over to the Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, an institution established on the basis of the former Wroblewski Library. The war Soviet Union with Nazi Germany, which started on June 22, 1941, became an obstacle to the integration of the Synod library. There is no evidence as to how it was stored and handled during the war. During the retreat of the German army from Vilnius in July 1944, the building of the Synod library in Pylimo Street burned down (perhaps, it was set on fire intentionally). Information spread that the library had perished, therefore the books that had been saved in some way and emerged afterwards, were given over to various libraries, in spite of the fact that they were supposed to have been transferred to the Library of the Academy of Sciences. 320 items have been discovered in the holdings of the Rare Books Department. 126 of them constitute just three composite sets. Most of the extant publications are on religious topics and reflect the development of the Reformation. The majority of the documents are in Latin. Very few historical and fiction books are extant. However, that which remains makes it possible to grasp some realities of the 17th-century life and thus represents interesting and valuable heritage. Keywords: Vilnius Evangelical Reformed Synod; Synod library; Reformation; Slutsk Gymnasium; theological dispute.
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Selihar, Karla. "Contributions to the history of Serbian reading rooms: Reading rooms in the villages and small towns of Vojvodina." Kultura, no. 176 (2022): 181–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/kultura2276181s.
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Under the influence of the ideas of the Enlightenment, just in time after the French Revolution, educated bourgeois class that formed in many countries felt the immense need for books and reading. Due to the social changes that had affected Europe, the attitude towards books and libraries was also changing. In Europe, social processes took place that enabled the development of education, literacy, and thus the creation of a new readership, as well as new ways of reading, which led to the establishment and formation of various clubs and societies whose main purpose was to enable the access to the newspapers and magazines. The first such societies appeared in France, England and Germany during the 17th and 18th century, and other European countries followed this trend. Serbs in Vojvodina opened their first reading room in Irig in 1842. Until the revolution of 1848/49, Serbian reading rooms were established in Sombor, Kikinda and Novi Sad. The reading movement experienced its expansion in the second half of the 19th century, when the majority of reading rooms in Vojvodina towns and villages were founded. The paper includes a brief overview of the origin and development of Serbian reading rooms in the villages and smaller towns of Vojvodina, with a reference to their role in educational and cultural development, as well as development of the national identity.
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Czarnecka, Katarzyna, Ewa Dzięgiel, and Alla Kravchuk. "Nazwa „mowa chachłacka” w relacjach powojennych przesiedleńców ze Wschodu zamieszkałych w zachodniej Polsce." LingVaria 18, no. 2(36) (November 14, 2023): 195–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/lv.18.2023.36.13.
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THE NAME MOWA CHACHŁACKA (KHAKHOL LANGUAGE) IN ACCOUNTS FROM DISPLACED POST-WAR MIGRANTS FROM THE EAST TO WESTERN POLAND This paper concerns the usage of the linguonym mowa chachłacka (Khakhol language) in Galicia, Podolia and Volhynia during the first half of the 20th Century. Therefore, it can be considered in the realm of historical sociolinguistics.The source material is comprised of interviews, recorded 1992–2006, with over 100 forced migrants from eastern voivodeships of the interwar Second Polish Republic. After World War 2, the respondents were resettled from their home towns into the new borders of post-war Poland, areas which belonged to Germany until 1945. The research method chosen was partially standardized interviews, which were first recorded and then written down.The paper is focused around the following issues: 1) which linguistic variety was referred to as mowa chachłacka in the interwar period within the researched communities, 2) whether this name contained a value judgement, 3) what was the prestige of mowa chachłacka in these communities. The first chapter of the paper concerns the history of the Russian lexeme хохол/хaхол, which forms the basis of the linguonym mowa chachłacka, and which has been used since the 17th Century to refer to Ukrainians. The article takes into account ideas concerning researching social attitudes to a language, such as standard language ideology and monoglossic ideology.