Digitization and in-depth exploration of the estate of Gotthold Schwela

戈特霍尔德·施韦拉(Sorbian：BogumiłŠwjela)是20世纪索尔比亚精英的重要代表，因为他的履历和工作。他出生于1873年，父亲是一名乡村学校教师和报纸编辑，父亲是一名乡村学校教师和报纸编辑。他学习神学和斯拉夫语言学，在索尔比亚下卢萨提亚成为牧师，除了他的职业之外，还从事过语言学家、公关、作家/翻译家和文化政治家的工作。在他的一生中(帝国、魏玛共和国、纳粹政权)，没有任何记录集能如此密集地记录下索布语、日常文化以及从演员的角度保护和进一步发展它的努力。施韦拉的S遗产主要包含关于国家和教会对索布族的政策以及索布族文化生活的自我组织的手写文件，关于地名、姓氏和地名的语言历史收藏、语法、词典收藏以及关于下索尔比亚民间文化方方面面的民族学语言收藏。目的是在适当的情况下对这些收藏进行正式的和与内容相关的深入探索，并提供相应的图像文件。这种档案收藏的数字化通常有助于从任何不处于人文研究中心，特别是不在施韦拉地区影响范围内的地方获取档案使用。一方面，它记录了严重濒危的下索布语，另一方面，它减少了没有索布语语言技能的文化科学家使用这些材料的语言障碍。

Gotthold Schwela (Sorbian: Bogumił Šwjela) was a significant representative of the Sorbian elite of the 20th century due to his curriculum vitae and work. Born in 1873 as the son of a village school teacher and newspaper editor, he studied theology and Slavic Philology studies, became a pastor in the Sorbian Lower Lusatia and, in addition to his profession, worked as a linguist, publicist, writer/translator and cultural politician.For his lifetime (Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi regime) there is no comparable record collection that offers such a dense documentation of the Lower Sorbian language, everyday culture and efforts to preserve and further develop it from the perspective of an actor.The Schwela´s estate contains mostly handwritten documents on state and church policy towards the Sorbs, on the self-organisation of Sorbian cultural life, language-historical collections on field names, family and place names, grammar, a dictionary collection as well as an ethnological-linguistic collection on all facets of Lower Sorbian folk culture.The aim is the formal and content-related in-depth exploration of the collection, where appropriate down to document level, and the provision of the corresponding image files.The digitisation of this archival fond generally facilitates access from any location for the archival use which is not located at the centre of research in the humanities and especially not in the regional sphere of influence of Schwela. On the one hand, it serves to document the acutely endangered Lower Sorbian language and, on the other hand, it reduces the language barrier for the use of the material by cultural scientists without Sorbian language skills.