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

gothold Schwela（索布族语：bogumiowŠwjela）是20世纪索布族精英的重要代表，因为他的简历和工作。他出生于1873年，是一名乡村学校教师和报纸编辑的儿子，学习神学和斯拉夫语文学研究，成为索布族下卢萨蒂亚的牧师，除了他的职业之外，还担任语言学家，公关人员，作家/翻译和文化政治家。在他的一生中（帝国，魏玛共和国，纳粹政权），没有可比的唱片收藏能从演员的角度提供如此密集的下索布族语言，日常文化以及保护和进一步发展它的努力。Schwela的遗产主要是关于国家和教会对索布族政策的手写文件，关于索布族文化生活的自我组织，关于地名、家庭和地名、语法的语言历史收藏，字典收藏以及关于下索布族民间文化各个方面的民族语言学收藏。其目的是对集合进行正式的和与内容相关的深入探索，在适当的情况下深入到文档级别，并提供相应的图像文件。这些档案的数字化通常有助于从任何地点访问档案使用，而不是位于人文研究中心，特别是不在Schwela的区域影响范围内。一方面，它用来记录严重濒危的下索布族语言，另一方面，它减少了没有索布族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.