11-01-2009, 11:46 PM
Just to add a few facts: 
founding dates of important historic journals:
1859 Historische Zeitschrift
1876 Revue Historique
1884 Rivista Storica Italiana
1886 English Historical Review
1895 American Historical Review
The first Article in the first issue of the English Historical Review was by a certain Lord Acton on "German Schools of History"
The first honorary member of the American Historical Association, which was founded in 1884, was L. v. Ranke, the "father of historical science"
For the subject of Ancient History it is also notworthy, that a larger amount of publications is in German than in French, English, Italian, or any other language. My advisor, when I studied in the US, constantly told the college students, that is is near impossible to study ancient history properly without knowing German, a language almost as important for the subject as Latin or Ancient Greek.
I lost the link, but last year there was a commission of international linguists trying to find out which language by structure is best suited for scientific communication, and, amazingly, German was the winner. One of the reasons was that German can easily produce simply understandable words by using known words and setting them together. e.g.
Rhein-Main-Donau-Dampfschiffahrtskapitänsmützenabzeichenherstellerzulieferbetrieb.
Which would be in English something like:
Company delivering materials to a company making hat signs for captains working for the Rhine-Main-Danube steam ship company
Other interesting facts:
[url:1k0i37ya]http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/dos/dds/en146304.htm[/url]
The article also gives a small insight in the German debate about the importance of German as scientific language...
founding dates of important historic journals:
1859 Historische Zeitschrift
1876 Revue Historique
1884 Rivista Storica Italiana
1886 English Historical Review
1895 American Historical Review
The first Article in the first issue of the English Historical Review was by a certain Lord Acton on "German Schools of History"
The first honorary member of the American Historical Association, which was founded in 1884, was L. v. Ranke, the "father of historical science"
For the subject of Ancient History it is also notworthy, that a larger amount of publications is in German than in French, English, Italian, or any other language. My advisor, when I studied in the US, constantly told the college students, that is is near impossible to study ancient history properly without knowing German, a language almost as important for the subject as Latin or Ancient Greek.
I lost the link, but last year there was a commission of international linguists trying to find out which language by structure is best suited for scientific communication, and, amazingly, German was the winner. One of the reasons was that German can easily produce simply understandable words by using known words and setting them together. e.g.
Rhein-Main-Donau-Dampfschiffahrtskapitänsmützenabzeichenherstellerzulieferbetrieb.
Which would be in English something like:
Company delivering materials to a company making hat signs for captains working for the Rhine-Main-Danube steam ship company
Other interesting facts:
[url:1k0i37ya]http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/dos/dds/en146304.htm[/url]
The article also gives a small insight in the German debate about the importance of German as scientific language...
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
