TY  - JOUR
A1  - Coudenys, Wim
A1  - Warditz, Vladislava
T1  - Is translation child's play?
T2  - Die Welt der Slaven : internationale Halbjahresschrift für Slavistik
N2  - 1765 and 1767 saw the publication of the German, respectively the English translation of Lomonosov's Kratkij rossijskij letopisec s rodosloviem (1760). For the very first time the European reading public could find out how Russians saw their own history. These translations testified to Russia's ascent both as an empire and as a part of European learned society, and were made by youths who wanted to further their own career and were neither professional translators nor historians. In this article, we argue that the translations of Lomonosov's Kratkij rossijskij letopisec should not be studied as an isolated act of cultural transfer but as an episode in a longer history of circulation of knowledge. We demonstrate the complexity of this circulation by reassessing the 'quality' of these translations and positioning them in that longer history of circulation of knowledge by analysing the distribution of historical concepts (Begriffe) in Lomonosov's original and its translations.
KW  - circulation of knowledge
KW  - translation
KW  - historiography
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Russia
KW  - Lomonosov
KW  - conceptual history
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61188
SN  - 0043-2520
SN  - 2193-5475
VL  - 66
IS  - 1
SP  - 46
EP  - 69
PB  - Harrassowitz
CY  - Wiesbaden
ER  -