In the summer of 2008, the news hit at least one in German history as the lightning: the historical-critical edition of the correspondence as Ranke'schen "(...) an almost bacterial enforcement with differences in wording that could impair to destruction of the authentic character of many documents has resulted. The number of necessary corrections is already checked by me for 90 out of 267 letters from more than 1,200 read errors. " . These rates are Günter John Henz, once the doctor of the young Leopold Ranke and - like Siegfried Baur - Head of the Department of Manuscripts of the Berlin State Security and also vine specialists - were not included in the edition project was. A rogue, the evil thinks.
that this disaster is just with the vine-Edition and also the Oldenbourg-Verlag, in which most of the standard works on history and the HZ will happens is almost a bad joke of history. The consequence: Volume 1 of the output is pulped, it all starts over again.
I very much hope that I will not forget the editors provided additional information from the correspondence-Perthes ...
For further reading:
WORLD Online article of 05/08/2008
WORLD Online article from 10/10/2008
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