The Diplomat and Orientalist Andreas David Mordtmann (1811-1879) as Witness of the Late Ottoman History and Early Representative of the Discipline of Ottoman Studies.

拟议的研究项目以东方学者和外交家安德烈亚斯·大卫·莫德曼(1811-1879)为中心。莫特曼于1846年来到伊斯坦布尔，担任汉堡、不来梅和L吕贝克等汉萨城市的临时代办；1859年被解除这一职务后，他成为奥斯曼帝国的公务员，私下从事学术和记者工作。他在德国和奥斯曼帝国文化之间的定位，以及他的各种专业活动领域，塑造了他作为学者和历史见证者的独特视角。他比他的大多数欧洲同龄人拥有更多的第一手信息，同时与老牌学术界的制度环境隔绝，他从矛盾的中间立场描述了奥斯曼帝国晚期改革时期(1839-1876)的政治和社会动荡。因此，对他留下的各种著作的分析将集中在他对奥斯曼帝国晚期历史的独特的跨文化观，以及他在仍然年轻的奥斯曼帝国研究领域的研究的实质性影响。通过将他的著作放在他那个时代的东方主义和西方主义话语的背景下，这项研究将对东方主义学术的历史做出重大贡献，补充和挑战一些常见的假设，即19世纪德国帝国之前的背景知识是如何产生的。

The proposed research project centers on the oriental scholar and diplomat Andreas David Mordtmann (1811-1879). Mordtmann came to Istanbul in 1846 as chargé d´affaires for the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck; after his dismissal from this post in 1859 he became an Ottoman civil servant, working privately as an academic and journalist. His positioning between the German and the Ottoman culture as well as his various professional spheres of activity shape his distinctive perspective as scholar and historical witness. Possessing more first-hand information than most of his European contemporaries while being cut off from the institutional environs of established academia he described the political and social upheavals of the late Ottoman reform period known as Tanzimat (1839-1876) from an ambivalent in-between position. The analysis of the various writings he left behind will therefore focus on his particular transcultural outlook on late Ottoman history as well as the substantial impact of his research in the still young field of Ottoman studies. By positioning his writings in the context of the orientalist and occidentalist discourses of his time the study will thus make a substantial contribution to the history of Orientalist scholarship, complementing and challenging some of the common assumptions about the way how in the nineteenth century, pre-imperial German context knowledge about 'the orient' was produced.