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

Christian Wolffs的印刷作品自1965年起由Jean Ecole（和其他人）编辑。（Georg Olms出版社，希尔德斯海姆），这使得他们很容易获得现在的学术研究。然而，克里斯蒂安·沃尔夫的信件却并非如此。相反，沃尔夫的信件仍然是启蒙研究中的一个未知领域。沃尔夫与曼特伊勒伯爵的书信是沃尔夫全部书信中最全面的一封，预计的评论版是探索上述未知领域的第一步。沃尔夫与曼特伊勒伯爵恩斯特·克里斯托夫的书信包括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。沃尔夫和曼特伊之间的书信往来详细地介绍了沃尔夫晚年的情况，以及沃尔夫和曼特伊参与的政治、哲学和神学辩论。更重要的是，由于沃尔夫-曼陀弗尔通信是沃尔夫网络的核心，因此在18世纪30年代和40年代传播沃尔夫的言论和思想方面发挥了重要作用，沃尔夫和曼陀弗尔的信件有助于理解18世纪上半叶的社会，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.