A Dictionary without Definitions: Romanticist Science in the Production and Presentation of the Grimm Brothers’ German Dictionary, 1838–1863

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Kistner
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
German Language ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jacob Grimm

ArgumentBetween 1838 and 1863 the Grimm brothers led a collaborative research project to create a new kind of dictionary documenting the history of the German language. They imagined the work would present a scientific account of linguistic cohesiveness and strengthen German unity. However, their dictionary volumes (most of which were arranged and written by Jacob Grimm) would be variously criticized for their idiosyncratic character and ultimately seen as a poor, and even prejudicial, piece of scholarship. This paper argues that such criticisms may reflect a misunderstanding of the dictionary. I claim it can be best understood as an artifact of romanticist science and its epistemological privileging of subjective perception coupled with a deeply-held faith in inter-subjective congruence. Thus situated, it is a rare and detailed case of Romantic ideas and ideals applied to the scientific study of social artifacts. Moreover, the dictionary's organization, reception, and legacy provide insights into the changing landscape of scientific practice in Germany, showcasing the difficulties of implementing a romanticist vision of science amidst widening gaps between the public and professionals, generalists and specialists.

Rondinini paintings rediscovered: A self-portrait by Paul Bril and a ‘witchcraft’ by Pieter van Laer

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-341
Author(s):  
Cristiano Giometti ◽  
Loredana Lorizzo
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Large Size ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dutch Painter

Abstract The Rondinini family is important for having developed a well-defined taste in collecting during the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, with an interest in ancient sculpture and painting staged in their palaces and villas in Rome and its surroundings. The most eminent artists active in seventeenth-century Rome worked for them. The paintings presented here are the most relevant examples of a great number of works that have re-emerged during a collaborative research project conducted by the universities of Florence and Salerno on the family’s contributions to the history of collecting. The first is a signed self-portrait by the Flemish artist Paul Bril, a pioneer amongst the landscape painters active in Rome between the late 1500s and early 1600s – a work of large size for the artist (110.0 x 81.5 cm); the second is a ‘witchcraft crowded with figures’ painted by Pieter van Laer, an eminent Dutch painter and leader of the group of masters called the ‘Bamboccianti’.

scholarly journals Fashion Film: The Grain of the Past in the Present

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Evans
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form

Today’s fashion film is often assumed to be an entirely new form that emerged in the digital age, but in fact it has a long history going back to the time of the first film, around 1900, and this lecture will bring together examples of both to tease out some connections. It draws on methods from “media archaeology” to argue that fashion film is a multi-layered construction in which past and present are interwoven in what Michel Foucault called “a history of the present.” The talk is drawn from Caroline’s collaborative research project “Archaeology of Fashion Film.” The project is based at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) in collaboration with Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton).

scholarly journals FROM THE HISTORY OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TRADITION OF THE CAUCASUS IN THE XVIII-XIX CENTURIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Zuleiha Zhambotovna GLASHEVA
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Further Development ◽  
History Of Formation

The article discusses the main directions in the study of the Caucasus: "the governmental", "the scientific" and "the public". The article highlights the activities of academic expeditions of the XVIII-XIX centuries, which initiated the scientific study of the peoples of the Caucasus, as well as the contribution of the military historians, scientific institutions and the societies to the study of the region. The author comes to conclusion that the XVIII - beginning of XIX centuries is the time of formation of the intelligent Caucasian studies, as well as the beginning of the formation of scientific understanding the region. It is noted that the study of travelers and military historians works is one of the main tasks of the national Caucasian studies and is necessary for the further development of historical science as a whole.

Towards a History of Projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Keller ◽  
Ted McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Scientific Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stuart England ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Individual Effort

This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relation to colonial expansion, experimental philosophy, and commercial and fiscal innovation – provoked defences of projecting that articulated the relationship between private interest, individual effort, the public good, and collaborative ­scientific practice in new ways. German cameralists and French philosophes extended these arguments, while recuperating the figure of the projector, in the eighteenth century.


Philology and Purism

PMLA ◽  
1900 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-96
Author(s):  
H. C. G. von Jagemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
German Language ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Long Line ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jacob Grimm ◽  
Definition Of

Whatever our definition of philology may be, whether we limit the term in accordance with the prevailing English acceptation of the word to the study of language, or regard, with Boeckh, as its proper object the study of the whole range of human culture, of all the products of the human mind, we probably all agree that the chief task of philology is to record and to explain, not to prophesy or to legislate. In this sense the function of the philologist is distinct from that of the grammarian, the rhetorician, and the literary critic. It must indeed be admitted that these different functions have often been confused, that they have often been exercised by the same person and that in fact the work of the philologist has to some extent been the outgrowth of that of the practical teacher of language. The work of Jacob Grimm was preceded by that of a long line of men whose primary aim was to purify, regulate, and in general improve the German language, though incidentally they became interested in its history and began to investigate the origin of its living forms. The history of our science differs not in this respect from that of other sciences; mathematics and astronomy are distinct from surveying and navigation, and botany from horticulture, though the first astronomer was probably a sailor and the first botanist a gardener.

scholarly journals From a Local Erfahrungsgeschichte of Holodomor to a Global History of Famines

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-449
Author(s):  
TANJA PENTER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
German Language ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Death Toll ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
History Of

In German historiography, the Ukrainian famine has not received adequate attention. A few exceptions exist, such as the 2004 special issue of the journal Osteuropa edited by Gerhard Simon and Rudolf Mark, but no single monograph in the German language nor any research project deals with the Holodomor. Moreover, amongst the broader German public, the Soviet famine of 1932–3 is relatively unknown, despite being one of the great catastrophes in twentieth-century European history and (in terms of its death toll) one of the biggest single crimes of Stalinism. How can this obvious omission on the part of German academic researchers of Stalinism be explained?

scholarly journals Antropologia feministyczna i historia kobiet a onomastyka – miejsca wspólne (na przykładzie chrześcijańskich imion żeńskich obecnych w nazwach miejscowych)

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-234
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skowronek
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Feminist Anthropology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Creation

The article is a fragment of the research project Names as the basis of Polish toponyms, conducted in the Department of Onomastics in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków. It is also a continuation of the discussion on the opportunities of using the category of gender in onomastics. The aim of the text is to highlight the presence of several Christian female names in structures of Polish toponyms, to describe their frequency, chronology and popularity. The author indicates various cultural and social factors facilitating (or not) the use of such toponyms in Poland. She interprets the creation of such toponyms (especially later) as a sign of increasing presence of women in the public and institutional sphere. The interpretation framework of this anthroponymic and toponymic material includes feminist anthropology and historical anthropology (especially the history of women).

From the History of the Public Library in the Village Tagai of Simbirsk District in Simbirsk Province

2010 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Valentina M. Patutkina
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
Library History ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ulyanovsk Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Village

The article is dedicated to unknown page in the library history of Ulyanovsk region. The author writes about the role of Trusteeship on people temperance in opening of libraries. The history of public library organized in the beginning of XX century in the Tagai village of Simbirsk district in Simbirsk province is renewed.

The Challenges in Dealing with Organized Crime and its Consequences in Modern Societies in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia – the Balkan Peninsula

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Bashkim Selmani ◽  
Bekim Maksuti
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Organized Crime Groups ◽  
Further Development

The profound changes within the Albanian society, including Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia, before and after they proclaimed independence (in exception of Albania), with the establishment of the parliamentary system resulted in mass spread social negative consequences such as crime, drugs, prostitution, child beggars on the street etc. As a result of these occurred circumstances emerged a substantial need for changes within the legal system in order to meet and achieve the European standards or behaviors and the need for adoption of many laws imported from abroad, but without actually reading the factual situation of the psycho-economic position of the citizens and the consequences of the peoples’ occupations without proper compensation, as a remedy for the victims of war or peace in these countries. The sad truth is that the perpetrators not only weren’t sanctioned, but these regions remained an untouched haven for further development of criminal activities, be it from the public state officials through property privatization or in the private field. The organized crime groups, almost in all cases, are perceived by the human mind as “Mafia” and it is a fact that this cannot be denied easily. The widely spread term “Mafia” is mostly known around the world to define criminal organizations.The Balkan Peninsula is highly involved in these illegal groups of organized crime whose practice of criminal activities is largely extended through the Balkan countries such as Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, etc. Many factors contributed to these strategic countries to be part of these types of activities. In general, some of the countries have been affected more specifically, but in all of the abovementioned countries organized crime has affected all areas of life, leaving a black mark in the history of these states.

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