The correspondence of the humanist scholar Nikodemus Frischlin (1547-1590) - Critical edition, summaries, commentary

虽然大部分德国改革者(例如路德、梅兰克松、布克)和早期德国人文主义者(例如雷克林、塞尔蒂斯、皮尔克海默)的书信已经出现在批评版本中或目前正在编辑中，但来自晚期人文主义时代的信件仍然几乎完全未经编辑，唯一值得注意的例外是早期巴洛克作家马特乌斯·雷德SJ和马丁·奥普茨。这种忽视是令人惊讶的，因为对晚期人文主义的研究在过去几十年里得到了极大的扩展，这可以从许多专著和专门研究的出版以及一些核心作者的全集的新版中看出。当时最著名的人物之一是斯瓦比亚语言学家、学校改革者和诗人尼科德穆斯·弗里施林(Nikodemus Frischlin，1547-1590年)，他的多样化文学作品不仅包括诗歌、戏剧、演讲和学术论文，还包括大量关于教育和社会政治主题的争议性小册子。除了这些重要的出版物外，与亲属、同事、政治和学术机构的代表以及符腾堡王朝成员的大量通信幸存下来，部分是用拉丁语，部分是德语。在弗里希林写给他的近450封信中，只有几封是在他生前发表的。此外，在现代，幸存的语料库从来没有发表过，甚至没有得到全面的描述。这些信件现正在评论文本版中出版，并附有内容摘要和广泛的评论。弗里希林书信的编辑们正在遵循人文主义者雷克林、梅兰松和皮尔克海默最近发表的书信的模式。书信的注释解释了提到的个人或地方、历史背景以及语言或文学项目，如古典文学和当代文学或圣经中的语录。此外，这些评论还挖掘了重要的相关档案来源，如图宾根大学教务委员会的记录、斯图加特法院的文件，以及弗里希林最著名的对手马丁·克鲁修斯的小册子。这个版本是对弗里斯林作品版本的一个至关重要的补充，也承诺通过第一次提供一个中心历史人物的自我文件来扩大对晚期人文主义的了解。弗里施林是这个时代最杰出的人物之一，因为他的文学、学术和文化活动的多样性，以及他对公共事务(特别是对贵族的作用)的清晰表达和经常争论不休的观点，尤其是因为他在欧洲文学界的突出融合。

Whereas for the most part the correspondence of German reformers (e.g. Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer) and early German humanists (e.g., Reuchlin, Celtis, Pirckheimer) has already appeared in critical editions or is currently being edited, letters from the age of late humanism remain almost entirely unedited, the only notable exceptions being the early baroque writers Matthäus Rader SJ, and Martin Opitz. This neglect is surprising because research on late humanism has expanded tremendously in the past few decades, as can be seen in the publication of numerous monographs and special studies as well as in new editions of the oeuvres of some of the central authors. One of the most prominent figures of the time is the Swabian philologist, school reformer and poet Nikodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), whose diverse literary production comprises not only poetry, drama, orations and learned treatises, but also a substantial corpus of polemical pamphlets on educational and socio-political themes. In addition to these significant publications, an extensive correspondence survives, partly in Latin, partly in German, with relatives, colleagues, representatives of political and academic institutions, and members of the Württemberg dynasty. Of the nearly 450 letters written by and to Frischlin, only a few were published during his lifetime. Moreover, in modern times, the surviving corpus has never been published nor even described comprehensively. These letters are now being published in a critical text edition along with content summaries and extensive commentaries. The editors of the Frischlin correspondence are following the model of the recently published correspondences of the humanists Reuchlin, Melanchthon, and Pirckheimer. The commentaries for the letters explain individuals or places mentioned and historical background as well as linguistic or literary items, such as quotations from classical and contemporary literature or from the Bible. Moreover, the commentaries also mine important related archival sources, such as the records of the Tübingen University Senate, documents of the Stuttgart court, and pamphlets of Martin Crusius, Frischlin's most prominent adversary. This edition offers a critically important complement to the edition of Frischlin's works and also promises to expand knowledge of late humanism by making the ego-documents of a central historical figure available for the first time. Frischlin ranks among the most distinguished figures of this era due to the variety of his literary, academic, and cultural activities, as well as his clearly articulated, and often polemical, views on public affairs (especially on the role of aristocracy) and, not least, due to his prominent integration in the European republic of letters.