Henning van Ghetelen

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Henning van Ghetelen (* probably 1481 in Lübeck ; † before January 31, 1528 ) was a German translator.

Life

Henning van Ghetelen was the eldest son of the Lübeck incunabula printer Hans van Ghetelen . He studied from 1496 at the University of Rostock .

Fracanzano da Montalboddo published the printed anthology Paesi novamente retrovati in Vicenza in 1507 , the first printed comprehensive collection of early modern discovery reports in Italian. The reports go back to the Venetian long-distance merchant and explorer Alvise Cadamosto . In 1508 the printer Georg Stuchs in Nuremberg published both an Early New High German and a Middle Low German translation of this postal incunable . Translator of the Middle Low German edition under the title Nye vnbekande lande Unde eine nye Werldt found in korter prior tyd was Henning van Ghetelen.

His brother Augustinus van Ghetelen became a Dominican and emerged as a controversial theologian and opponent of Johannes Bugenhagen .

literature

  • Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 353-367 (p. 360 f.)
  • Norbert Ankenbauer: "that i wanted to experience meer newer dyng" The language of the new in the Paesi novamente retrovati (Vicenza, 1507) and in its German translation (Nuremberg, 1508). Berlin: Frank & Timme 2010
  • Christa Schneider: Van den first schypfarthen auer dat Mere Occeanum: the Middle Low German translation of Cadamosto's travelogue by Henningus Ghetelen (1508) , diplomatic edition and philological investigation, Kümmerle, Göppingen 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ See Ankenbauer (2010), pp. 52–55.
  3. ↑ Ralf Kötter: Hans van Ghetelen as printer of the Mohnkopfoffizin in: ZVLGA Volume 71 (1991), p. 360 ff.
  4. ↑ Wilhelm Sillem:  Getelen, Augustine of . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 336-339.
personal data
SURNAME Ghetelen, Henning van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German translator
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1481
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH before January 31, 1528