Lucian in the Early Modern German Translation Culture

在德国人文主义对古代的大力研究背景下，萨莫萨塔的卢西安特别受欢迎，直到16世纪中叶左右，他一直是德语地区翻译最多的希腊作家。鉴于德国古代接受的这一子领域尚未被研究，申请人希望对卢西恩在近代早期的德文译本进行全面的研究。翻译卢西恩的实践--也就是最初的假设--特别清楚地表明了古代、手写传统和印刷术、意大利和德国文化区、天主教和宗教改革之间复杂的相互作用，这是早期现代翻译文化的特征。研究语料库由14个部分翻译组成，涵盖了1469年到1569年；其中一些是著名人物写的，如尼克拉斯·冯·怀尔或约翰尼斯·罗克林。在拟议的项目中，将根据这些译本的文学-历史背景对其进行部分新的探索、宏观和微观分析和评估。该项目集中在两个核心问题上：德国的卢西亚传统如何适应早期现代理论和翻译史的更大背景？它对近代早期的翻译文化产生了哪些影响？因此，研究的重点应该集中在卢西安接受的文化形成作用这一方面。在早期现代卢西安翻译中，翻译的转移是以一种复杂的方式进行的：希腊原文通常通过意大利人文主义的拉丁版本被转移到德国文化中。意大利人文主义以其对卢西恩的特殊理解，在“传递回路”中起着中介作用，并在研究过程中受到特别关注。

Lucian of Samosata was especially popular in the context of the vigorous studies of antiquity in the German humanism and was the most translated Greek author in the German-speaking area until about the middle of the 16th century. On the basis of the observation that this subfield of German reception of antiquity has not yet been investigated, the applicant wishes to present a comprehensive study of the German translations of Lucian in the early modern period. The practice of translating Lucian - so the initial hypothesis - shows particularly clearly the complex interplay between 'imitatio' and 'aemulatio' of antiquity, handwritten tradition and the emergence of printing, Italian and German cultural area, Catholicism and the Reformation, which is characteristic for the early modern culture of translation.The corpus of the study consists of 14 partial translations covering the period from 1469 to 1569; some of which were written by famous personalities such as Niklas von Wyle or Johannes Reuchlin. In the proposed project, these translations are to be partly newly explored, macro- and micro-analytically analysed and evaluated in the light of their literary-historical context. The project is focused on two central questions: How does the German Lucian tradition fit into the larger context of early modern theory and history of translation? What effects does it exert on the culture of translation of the early modern period? The focus of the study shall therefore concentrate on the aspect of the culture-forming role of the reception of Lucian. In the case of the early modern Lucian translations, the transfer of translation takes place in a complex way: the original Greek texts are usually transferred to the German culture through the Latin versions of the Italian humanists. Italian Humanism, with its specific understanding of Lucian, functions as a mediating instance within the 'transfer circuit' and is to receive special attention in the course of the study.