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

安哈特-伯恩堡王子克里斯蒂安二世(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，而且出于其他原因，它也是与其他自传体作品相比，这段混乱的历史最有价值的个人见证之一。该书涉及的题材广泛，语言和修辞复杂，但作者试图分析和揭示其内心深处的思想和情感，这显然有别于类似的来源。它为我们提供了大量的多方面的信息和原始材料，这肯定会启发我们对这一时期的进一步和更深入的研究，因为日记变得更容易获得。它不仅是关于自我和主体性的历史，也是一个时期的政治和军事历史，也是关于社会变迁和日常生活的历史。其他可以从日记中受益的研究领域是贵族作为一个阶级的历史，语言、文学和一般文化史，宗教历史和忏悔身份的历史，最后是情感和梦境的历史。长期以来，人们一直认为出版这本日记是非常可取的。现在以数字版本形式提供的技术工具，最终使我们有机会以负担得起的价格出版日记，并以符合所有学术标准和标准的形式出版日记，这将为读者提供丰富的信息和材料，形式包括彩色传真扫描、批判性评论，包括对事件、地名等的解释性说明和地图。这样的版本将确保历史学家以及对17世纪感兴趣的更广泛的公众能够获得比目前更广泛的自传材料，可与其他欧洲国家(特别是法国)已有的自传材料相媲美。因此，现有来源范围内的一个重要缺口将被弥合。

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.