La Belle Anglaise Duchesse Luise Dorothea of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg. The Book Collector as Mediator of English Culture.

公爵夫人路易丝·多萝西娅·冯·萨克森-哥达-阿尔滕堡（1710-1767）对18世纪德国哥达宫廷的政治和文化生活产生了巨大影响。她被正确地誉为科学和艺术的坚定支持者。 因此，她是塑造早期现代欧洲文化和政治的众多公主之一，不仅有自己的教育作品和社会成员，而且还通过他们在哲学和美学领域的网络。 他们对政治和社会生活的影响可以从他们的藏书中“读”出来，但在任何情况下都不会比公爵夫人更真实。她的私人藏书3600册，不仅是哥达宫廷14个私人藏书中最大的女性图书馆，而且比她的丈夫弗里德里希三世的藏书更广泛。鉴于她的亲法主义和她与伏尔泰和其他人的大量信件，这本书以前被认为是一个“法国”。 然而，令人惊讶的是，大约有100名英国作家（其中一些是女性）和一些印刷品，显示出对英国，苏格兰，爱尔兰，美国或印度事务的兴趣。 不仅道德或哲学作品，如乔治·伯克利、拉尔夫·库德沃斯、安东尼·柯林斯或弗朗西斯·哈奇森的作品占据突出地位--这种倾向是不久前发现的--而且还有来自各个艺术领域的出版物。 除了她对bellesweetres的偏爱，人们还发现了英文期刊和百科全书，以及关于政治，宗教，历史，科学和旅行的书籍，仅举几个流派。该项目旨在系统地重建和分析作为公爵夫人整个收藏的一部分的“Bibliotheca Anglicana”，以展示其背景意义。首先，文化转移的做法将被考虑，集中在这种情况下，通过法语更复杂的三方调解。接下来，将注意力集中在这个集合的特殊性质。G.它在关于美丽的文学和历史的章节中纳入了大量的英国女作家。最后，研究将集中在习得实践和社会网络通过书籍可见。这将使人们对路易丝·多萝西娅在这个“活图书馆”中所扮演的角色得出意义深远的结论。双重成果将采取印刷专著和“英国图书馆”（每一项）的数字演示（通过图书馆重建工具LibReTo）的形式。 它将为早期现代欧洲的项目提供宝贵的研究机会，不仅在图书馆研究和数字人文，性别和贵族研究领域，而且特别是在跨文化研究领域。

Duchess Luise Dorothea von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (1710-1767) strongly influenced political and cultural life at the court of Gotha in eighteenth-century Germany. She is rightly acclaimed an irenic supporter of science and the arts. As such, she is one of a number of princesses who shaped Early Modern Europe culturally and politically, not only with their own works on education and their membership in societies, but also through their networking in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics. Their impact on political and social life can be “read” from their book collections, but in no case is this more true than that of the Duchess. Her private collection of 3600 books represents not only the largest woman’s library of the fourteen private collections at the court of Gotha, but is also more extensive than that of her husband, Friedrich III. Given her francophilia and her substantial correspondence with Voltaire and others, this collection has previously been considered to be a “French” one. Surprisingly, though, there are about 100 English authors (some of them women) and a number of prints, revealing an interest in English, Scottish, Irish, American or Indian affairs. Not only do moral or philosophical works, like those by George Berkeley, Ralph Cudworth, Anthony Collins or Francis Hutcheson figure prominently – an inclination discovered some time ago —, but also publications from every area of the arts. Apart from her preference for belles lettres, one finds English journals and encyclopedias, also books on politics, religion, history, science and travel, just to name a few genres. This project aims to reconstruct and analyze systematically the „Bibliotheca Anglicana“ as part of the Duchess’ entire collection in order to demonstrate its contextual significance. Initially, the practices of cultural transfer will be considered, concentrating, in this case, on the more complex trilateral mediation via French. Next, attention will be directed to the exceptional nature of this collection e. g. its inclusion of a significant number of English women writers in the sections on Belles Lettres and History. Finally, the research will focus on the acquisition practice and the social network made visible through the books. This will allow for far-reaching conclusions about the role Luise Dorothea played in this “living library”. The twofold result will take the form of a printed monograph and a digital presentation of (every item of) the „Bibliotheca Anglicana“ (by means of the library reconstruction tool LibReTo). It will provide valuable research opportunities for projects on Early Modern Europe, not only in the areas of library research and digital humanities, gender and nobility studies, but also, indeed especially, in the area of transcultural studies.