Review article
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH TEMLER AND HIS MANUSCRIPT (NKS 175 – 4°)
Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo
; Università degli Studi "G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne, Pescara, Italija
Abstract
The aim of this work is to provide an insight into the life and work of the
Danish civil servant and book collector Friedrich Christian Temler (1717-
1780) and to analyse one of his two manuscripts relating to Slav peoples and languages. It is a manuscript which is kept in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, signature: NyKongeligSamling175-4°, under the name of "Collectanea omAdskilligeslaviskaSprog, isærdetillyriske". Methodology: 1) bibliographical data collected from various sources will be mentioned and analysed, since they contribute to completing the picture of Temler’s Slavophile and philological activity; 2) the motives behind Temler’s interest in Slav nations and languages will be considered as well as the origin of his knowledge of the "Illyrian" language; 3) another Temler’s manuscript, the Illyrian/Slavonian dictionary, "Dictionarium slavonicum/Illiricum" kept in the Royal Library in Copenhagen (GKS 2071-4°) will be partly taken into account; 4) Temler’s manuscript "Collectanea" (NKS 175-4° ) will be analysed in its various segments, both in terms of the material and content. Results and conclusion:1) the analysis of the above-mentioned material will provide a comprehensive picture of Temler’s philological activity, which will amend certain inaccurate or incomplete data; 2) the analysis of the ms. NKS175-4° will gives a clearer picture of Temler’s notes, which will lead to new assumptions about the possibility that Temler intended to write a work on the origin of the Slavs and the Slav languages; 3) in addition, the manuscript in question provides an insight into Temler’s sources that in turn shed light on the origin of Temler’s knowledge of the "Illyrian" language.
Keywords
Christian Friedrich Temler; "Collectanea om adskillige slaviske Sprog; især det illyriske"
Hrčak ID:
155388
URI
Publication date:
19.2.2016.
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