Ottoman Language Learning in Early Modern Germany

This article presents new evidence on the authorship and readership of the earliest printed Ottoman language materials that details the extent to which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inhabitants of the Holy Roman Empire actively engaged in learning Ottoman. Such findings open up a new field of inquiry evaluating the Ottoman impact on the German-speaking lands reaching beyond the so-called “Turkish menace.” Presenting the variety of Ottoman language students, teachers, and materials in central Europe, as well as their connections with the oral world(s) of linguistic fieldwork in the Habsburg-Ottoman contact zone, this article argues that Ottoman language learning is an important but thus far neglected element in understanding the cultural and intellectual landscape of early modern central Europe. What may appear to be experiments with linguistic riddles on first glimpse was in fact grounded in deep enthusiasm and fascination for Ottoman language learning shared among a community of Protestant semi-scholarly aficionados

Ancient history · Archaeology · Audience measurement · Enthusiasm · German · Linguistics · Ottoman empire · Political science · Protestantism · Roman Empire · Turkish · Variety (cybernetics · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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