Gastbeitrag von Dr. Angéline Rais Nicknamed the ‘König der Antiquare’, Martin Breslauer (1871–1940) was one of the greatest German booksellers of the early 20th century. Over more than forty years, he gained an international reputation as a skilled and knowledgeable dealer by selling thousands of manuscripts and printed books to buyers all over the world. […]
Gastbeitrag von Alexander Nicholls The musical activities of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and his court, which were of great significance for Prussia’s cultural development, have been only partially examined by musical scholars and scarcely at all by historians. My doctoral research focuses on the violoncello performance practices of Friedrich Wilhelm as found in his personal performance materials […]
Gastbeitrag von Nikola Pantić Nestled on the boundaries between religion and magic, thaumaturgy today largely avoids scholarly attention. The idea that a ritual is in popular belief connected to a coherent result without an immediately apparent causal relationship belongs to the study of magical belief and practice. Scholars rarely discuss the similarities between orthodox religious […]
Gastbeitrag von Katya Knyazeva In summer 1922, the Russian poet Iakov Oksner moved to Berlin. The Russian population of the city, made up mostly from refugees from the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the Civil War, was in the hundreds of thousands. The intellectual life was vigorous; newspaper and book publishing thrived. In autumn 1923, however, pressured […]
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Güler Doğan Averbek Introduction Many of the libraries in Europe and America that have Islamic manuscripts in their collections owe a significant part of them to Oskar Rescher (aka Osman Reşer, 1883–1972). He was a global trader and broker of manuscripts, deserving the title of probably the most active trader of Islamic […]
Den heutigen Internationalen Übersetzertag und Hieronymustag des VdÜ möchten wir, einer im vorigen Jahr begonnenen Tradition folgend, auch diesmal standesgemäß mit einem thematisch passenden Beitrag begehen. Vermutlich haben Sie sich noch nie gefragt, welches das am häufigsten ins Schwedische übersetzte Gedicht ist. Antwort und Geschichte dazu mögen trotzdem interessant sein: Es handelt sich um J. W. von Goethes […]