Documents from the Berlin Mission as important media of communication to disseminate transcultural knowledge on South Africa. - Investigation and Edition of the manuscripts of Albert Kropf and Johannes Winter

柏林使团的文件是传播南非跨文化知识的重要传播媒介。

• 批准号: 251000939
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Feldtkeller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Professur für Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/251000939?language=en
• 关键词: Documents; Berlin; Mission; important; media

The contribution of European missionaries to the generation of knowledge on other regions of the world and on their cultures has been subject to research in the context of globalization of knowledge. Especially the importance of German missionaries and among them Berlin missionaries for academic research on ethnic communities and on cultures has been highlighted. The current project connects research on the contribution of Christian missionaries as cultural brokers with the edition and publication of their original academic work. During the previous period of funding the first part of the project has been completed: the critical edition of the book by Albert Kropf, “Das Volk der Xosa Kaffern”. The final version of the work as edited by the author in handwriting has been published as a printed book; a critical edition allowing the reconstruction of Kropf’s work on the book is available as a web resource. The second part of the project, the edition of the writings by Berlin missionary Johannes Winter (1847– 1921) cannot be completed during the prolongation of the project that has been granted so far, as it has been reduced in comparison to our application. For details see part 2 of this application. Johannes Winter has left a voluminous oeuvre of manuscript papers on the ethnic communities among which he has lived, and on the causes and characteristics of the movement of African Christian autonomy, in which he was actively involved. There papers are situated at different location in Germany, South Africa and Simbabwe. The manuscript papers by Johannes Winter are unique for their original contribution to the foundation of ethnology in South Africa in combination with his active participation in the establishment of one of the oldest churches independent from mission agencies. Therefore, they enable us to understand how a personality of this important period in South African history related academic work to agency.

在知识全球化的背景下，对欧洲传教士对世界其他地区及其文化知识的产生所作的贡献进行了研究。特别是德国传教士，其中包括柏林传教士对种族社区和文化的学术研究的重要性得到了强调。目前的项目将研究基督教传教士作为文化经纪人的贡献与他们原创学术作品的编辑和出版联系起来。在上一个资助期间，该项目的第一部分已经完成：阿尔伯特·克罗普夫的书《Xosa Kaffern的人民》的评论版。由作者手写编辑的作品的最终版本已作为印刷书籍出版;允许Kropf在书中重建工作的关键版本可作为网络资源提供。该项目的第二部分，即柏林传教士约翰内斯·温特（Johannes Winter，1847- 1921）著作的版本，无法在迄今为止获得批准的项目延期期间完成，因为与我们的申请相比，它已经减少了。有关详细信息，请参见本申请的第2部分。约翰内斯·温特留下了大量的手稿，其中包括他所生活的民族社区，以及他积极参与的非洲基督教自治运动的原因和特点。这些报纸位于德国、南非和辛巴布韦的不同地点。约翰内斯·温特的手稿是独一无二的，因为它们对南非民族学的基础做出了原创性的贡献，同时他积极参与了独立于使命机构的最古老的教堂之一的建立。因此，他们使我们能够了解如何在南非历史上的这一重要时期的个性相关的学术工作，以机构。