Neo-Latin Philology

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The Neo-Latin Philology , also: Latin Philology of modern times or Neolatinistik , Latin philologia Humanistica , is the science which the humanist Latin and the neo-Latin literature has as its object.

Neo-Latin philologists or neo-Latinists are also known as neo-Latinists. However, this term is also applied to people who lived in post-medieval times, i. H. From the early modern period to the present, writing and speaking in Latin (see: Latinitas viva ).

program

On the linguistic side, it is your task to grasp neo-Latin in its return to classical Latin as well as in its turn to its contemporary functions; on the literary side, to grasp neo-Latin literature from the beginning of modern times to the present to classify and interpret historically and historically. The neo-Latin language and literature is increasingly in competition, but also in addition to and in interaction with the various national languages. It is the means of communication and expression of the res publica litterarum , hence a lingua franca , on the other hand, however, different epicentres of neo-Latin literature develop locally and regionally and on the timeline, which are in communication with one another.

Neo-Latin Studies thus overlap with Renaissance , Humanism and Early Modern Research , in which national-language philologies, historical studies, Christian theologies , Jewish studies , philosophy , the history of medicine and so on, as well as various auxiliary sciences, come together.

history

The history of neo-Latin philology goes back to its beginnings at the end of the 15th century. However, Jozef IJsewijn can be regarded as the " founding father of modern neo-Latin studies" . In 1966 he founded the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae at the University of Leuven , was one of the organizers of the first international neo-Latin congress in 1971 and, with his companion, presented significant studies for the development of neo-Latin literature. The second neo-Latin congress took place in 1973 in Amsterdam.

Neo-Latin Studies was not institutionalized in Germany until the 1960s out of Classical Philology . In practically all cases, neo-Latin studies were added to the already existing Middle Latin seminars. The first neo-Latin dissertation in the German-speaking area was published in July 1962 by Paul Gerhard Schmidt in Göttingen under the title Supplemente Latin prose in modern times. An overview of attempts at reconstruction by Latin authors from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment was submitted, the second submitted by Hermann Wiegand in Heidelberg in 1984 under the title Hodoeporica. Studies on neo-Latin travel poetry in the German cultural area in the 16th century . Walther Ludwig and Karl August Neuhausen are considered the nestors of neo-Latin philology , even if their dissertations were still oriented towards ancient philology.

Due to the contextual contexts, neo-Latin philology is still often practiced by classical philologists and representatives of Middle Latin philology , due to overlaps with various national literatures, not infrequently also by Germanists or corresponding national-language philologies in Italy , the Netherlands , Great Britain (here Ian D. McFarlane is considered to be Founder of Neo-Latin studies), France , Belgium , Poland , Hungary and other countries of the Neo-Latin sphere of influence.

literature

Programmatic literature

  • Hans-Gert Roloff : The development of the neo-Latin literature and Europe. In: Trans – Internet Journal for Cultural Studies, 3rd No., March 1998, (online) .
  • Walther Ludwig, Reinhold F. Glei , Jürgen Leonhardt : Classical and neo-Latin philology. Problems and Perspectives. In: Rheinisches Museum 146, 2003, 395-424, (online) (PDF). In this:
    • Walther Ludwig: The New Latin Revolution. In: Rheinisches Museum 146, 2003, 395-407.
    • Reinhold F. Glei: "Under Construction". To implement neo-Latin project work in university teaching. In: Rheinisches Museum 146, 2003, 407-415.
    • Jürgen Leonhardt: What comes after the revolution? Pragmatic reflections on the tasks of Neo-Latin Philology. In: Rheinisches Museum 146, 2003, pp. 415–424.
  • Walther Ludwig: Modern Latin literature since the Renaissance. In: Fritz Graf (Ed.), Introduction to Latin Philology. BG Teubner, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1997, pp. 323-356.

history

  • Jozef IJsewijn : Neo-Latin: An Historical Survey , in: Helios 14.2, special issue: Latinitas: The Tradition and Teaching of Latin , 1987, 93-108; Reprinted in: Humanisme i literatura neollatina. Edicio a carrec de Josep Lluís Barona. Universitat de València, 1996, 43-62, (online) .

encyclopedia

Bibliographies

  • Jozef IJsewijn, Dirk Sacré : Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part II: Literary, linguistic, philological and editorial questions . Second entirely rewritten edition. Leuven-Louvain, Leuven UP 1998.
  • Jozef IJsewijn: Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature. Second entirely rewritten edition. Leuven-Louvain, Leuven UP / Peeters Press Louvain 1990.
  • Jozef IJsewijn: Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, North Holland Publishing Company 1977.
  • Dana F. Sutton : An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts (since 1999), (online)
  • Marc van der Poel : Bibliographical Aid to the Study of Renaissance Latin Texts (online)

Magazines

  • Humanistica Lovaniensia - Journal of Neo-Latin Studies , (online) , (excerpts online) .
  • New Latin Yearbook , (online) .
  • Studi secenteschi , (online) .
  • Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies , Editor in chief: Bernard Ribémont, Université d'Orléans, (online)
  • The Seventeenth Century , therein: Neo-Latin News , (online) .
  • The Sixteenth Century Journal , now: The Electronic Sixteenth Century Journal , (online)

Publication series

  • Bibliotheca Neolatina , Peter Lang
  • The neo-Latin library. Artes Renascentes - Series Germanica , Holzhausen, Vienna
  • Excerpta Classica , Diederichs
  • Humanistic library , Wilhelm Fink
  • I Tatti Renaissance Library , Harvard University Press
  • NeoLatina , Gunter Narr, Tübingen
  • Noctes Neolatinae , Bonn
  • Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance , Droz, Genève

Societies, institutes, research centers

Societies

Institute Germany

Austria

Belgium

Ireland

United Kingdom

Canada

Croatia

See also

Web links

Online text collections

Dictionary, word list and database

Others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Rummel, Milton Kooistra: Reformation Sources: The Letters of Wolfgang Capito and His Fellow Reformers in Alsace and Switzerland. Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto 2007, p. 96. (online)