Digital Edition and Annotation of the Diary of Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599-1656)

安哈尔特-伯恩堡的克里斯蒂安二世亲王（1599-1656）在1621年至1656年之间保存的日记不仅作为一份关键文件说明了三十年战争及其后果的历史，而且由于其他原因，与其他自传体著作相比，它也是这段动荡时期历史上最有价值的个人证词之一。涉及的主题范围广泛，语言和修辞复杂，而且作者试图分析和揭示他内心深处的思想和情感，这显然使其有别于类似的来源。它为我们提供了大量多方面的信息和原始材料，当日记变得更容易获得时，这些信息和材料肯定会激发对这一时期的进一步深入研究。它不仅对历史上的自我和主体性、政治和军事的历史时期，而且对社会变革和日常生活。其他可以从日记中受益的研究领域包括贵族阶级的历史、语言、文学和文化的历史、宗教史和忏悔身份的历史，以及情感和梦想的历史。很长一段时间以来，人们都认为出版这本日记是非常可取的。现在可以获得数字版的技术工具，终于使我们有机会以负担得起的价格出版日记，而且出版形式符合所有学术标准，将为读者提供丰富的信息和材料，其形式除其他外包括彩色传真扫描、评论性意见，包括对事件、地名等的解释性说明和地图。这样一个版本将确保历史学家以及对17世纪世纪感兴趣的更广泛的公众能够获得比迄今为止更广泛的自传材料，与其他欧洲国家（特别是法国）已经提供的材料相当。因此，将填补现有来源范围内的一个重要空白。

The diary which Prince Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599-1656) kept between 1621 and 1656 does not only illustrate as a key document the history of the Thirty Years’ War and its aftermath, it is for other reasons as well one of the most valuable personal testimonies of this troubled period of history in comparison with other autobiographical writings. The vast range of subjects addressed, the sophisticated language and rhetoric, but also the author’s attempt to analyse and lay open his innermost thoughts and emotions clearly distinguish it from similar sources. It provides us with an enormous amount of multifaceted information and source materials that will certainly inspire further and deeper research on this period when the diary becomes more accessible. It is important for the history of the self and subjectivity, the political and military history of the period but also of social change and ordinary life. Other areas of research which can benefit from the diary are the history of the nobility as a class, the history of language and literature and culture in general, religious history and that of confessional identities, and finally the history of emotions and of dreams. It has for a long time been recognized that it is highly desirable to publish the diary. The technical tools which are now available in the form of a digital edition, finally give us a chance to publish the diary at an affordable price and in a form which nevertheless meets all the academic standards andwhich will provide the reader with a wealth of information and material in the form of – inter alia – facsimile scans in colour, critical comments including explanatory notes for events, place names etc. and maps. Such an edition will ensure that the historian but also a wider public interested in the 17th century will gain access to autobiographical material on a much wider scale than so far, comparable to what is already available for other European countries (in particular for France). An important gap in the available range of sources will thus be closed.