Early German Enlightenment Commemorations of Gutenberg's Printing Press Grant uri icon

abstract

  • The grant allowed me to collect data in archives in Leipzig and Gotha/Erfurt in December 2007. I am interested in analyzing the degree to which commemorations of Gutenberg's printing press in 1740 Saxony privileged German speakers over the citizenry of Spain, France and England, each of whom possessed colonies and a recognized standardized language when Germans did not.

date/time interval

  • January 2007 - February 2007