Epistolography

Epistolography (also epistolography ) is the literary scientific term for the literary genre letter , for letter collections and the scientific study of them (letter writing theory).

Letters collections make the private or professional correspondence of a person or an organization accessible to the public. They can also be published in book form . As such, they serve to round off biographies or historical representations.

Collections of letters

• Admonter letter collection of the Admont Abbey
• Walter Benjamin : Collected Letters (6 vols.)
• Rudolf Borchardt : Collected Letters
• Collection of letters by Gerbert von Aurillac from Pope Silvester II.
• Field post letters from Jewish soldiers 1914–1918 (2 vol.)
• Pauline letters and Catholic letters of the New Testament of the Bible
• Tegernsee letter collection

literature

• Schaller, Hans Martin : Letters and collections of letters as an edition task. The time after 1100 . (In: Schaller, Hans Martin: Stauferzeit: Selected essays . Hanover 1993 (MGH Schriften 38), pp. 409-416)
• Johannes Sykutris : Epistolography . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume V, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 185-220.

See also

• epistle
• Epistolographic script, see Demotic script