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里亚斯·大卫·莫特曼（1811-1879）为中心。莫特曼于1846年来到伊斯坦布尔，担任汉萨同盟城市汉堡、不来梅和莱<s:1>贝克的代办；1859年被解职后，他成为了奥斯曼帝国的一名公务员，私下担任学者和记者。他在德国和奥斯曼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人的独特视角。他拥有比他同时代的大多数欧洲人更多的第一手资料，同时又与成熟学术界的制度环境隔绝，他从一个矛盾的中间立场描述了奥斯曼帝国改革后期的政治和社会动荡，也就是Tanzimat（1839-1876）。因此，对他留下的各种著作的分析将集中在他对晚期奥斯曼历史的特殊的跨文化观点，以及他的研究对仍然年轻的奥斯曼研究领域的重大影响。通过将他的著作置于他那个时代的东方学和西方主义话语的背景下，这项研究将对东方学学术的历史做出重大贡献，补充和挑战一些关于19世纪前帝国时期德国背景下关于“东方”的知识是如何产生的常见假设。

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.