Historical-critical Edition of the Correspondence between Christian Wolff and Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel

Christian wolff的印刷作品自1965年以来一直由Jean Ecole（和其他人）编辑。（乔治·奥姆斯出版社，希尔德斯海姆），这使得现在的学术研究很容易获得。然而，克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫的信件却不是这样。相反，沃尔夫的书信在启蒙研究中仍然是一个未知的领域。wolff - manteuffel通信的计划批判版是wolff所有通信中最全面的，旨在探索上述未知领域的第一步。沃尔夫与曼特菲尔伯爵恩斯特·克里斯托夫的通信包括488封信，写于1738年至1748年之间，几乎完整地保存在莱比锡大学图书馆。沃尔夫和曼特菲尔之间的书信往来，让我们对沃尔夫晚年的生活，以及沃尔夫和曼特菲尔所参与的政治、哲学和神学辩论，有了详细的了解。更重要的是，由于wolff - manteuffel通信是Wolffian网络的核心，因此在18世纪30年代和40年代对传播wolff的言论和思想起着重要作用，wolff和Manteuffels的信件有助于理解18世纪上半叶开明的社会、政治和科学网络是如何运作的。

Christian Wolffs printed works have been edited by Jean Ecole (and others) since 1965 et seqq. (Georg Olms-publishing house, Hildesheim), which makes them easily accessible now for scholarly research. This however is not the case with the letters of Christian Wolff. On the contrary, Wolffs correspondence is still a terra incognita within Enlightenment-research. The projected critical edition of the Wolff-Manteuffel-correspondence, which is the most comprehensive of Wolffs entire correspondence, is meant to be a first step to explore the above-mentioned terra incognita.Wolffs correspondence with Ernst Christoph Count of Manteuffel comprises 488 letters, written between 1738 and 1748, and is preserved almost completely in the Library of the University of Leipzig. The exchange of letters between Wolff and Manteuffel gives a detailed insight into the late years of Wolff and into the political, philosophical, and theological debates in which Wolff and Manteuffel were involved. More importantly, since the Wolff-Manteuffel-correspondence is at the core of the Wolffian network and hence plays an important role for disseminating Wolffs statements and ideas in the 1730ies and 1740ies, Wolffs and Manteuffels letters help to understand how enligthened social, political, and scientifical networks functioned in the first half of the 18th century.