The Res publica Schefferiana – the correspondence of Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679)

This dataset lists preliminary results of research on the correspondence of philologist Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679). It was created to accompany my doctoral dissertation «Early Modern Knowledge about the Sámi: A History of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1673) and its Adaptations» dealing with the first-ever monograph on the Sámi people of the Fennoscandian peninsula, and its adaptations published in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the dissertation, I analyse the role correspondence played in the coming into existence and further development of the Lapponia project. The dataset is an extension of the register of Schefferus’ correspondence found in Eric Michael Fant’s (1754-1817) biography of Schefferus "Minne öfver Joh. Schefferus", published in Stockholm in 1782. It lists all letters found in six volumes (UUB G 260 and G 260 a-e) at the manuscript collection of Uppsala University Library, further letters scattered in other volumes and some copies. Parts of Schefferus’ correspondence has been published in print or listed elsewhere. This is noted in all known cases. The .pdf- and .xlsx-versions contain hyperlinks to the respective digitized versions or archival entries.

本数据集收录了关于哲学家约翰内斯·谢弗（1621-1679）研究成就的初步成果。该数据集旨在辅助我的博士论文《早期现代关于萨米人的知识：约翰内斯·谢弗的《拉普兰》（1673）及其改编史》，该论文探讨了芬诺斯坎迪亚半岛萨米人的首部专著及其在17世纪和18世纪的改编。论文中，我分析了书信在《拉普兰》项目诞生及其进一步发展过程中所扮演的角色。本数据集是对埃里克·迈克尔·范特（1754-1817）所著谢弗传记《纪念约翰·谢弗》中谢弗通信录的扩展，该传记于1782年在斯德哥尔摩出版。数据集列出了乌普萨拉大学图书馆手稿收藏中六卷（UUB G 260及G 260 a-e）中的所有信件，以及散见于其他卷册中的信件和一些副本。谢弗的部分通信已在印刷品或他处列出，所有已知案例均已注明。.pdf和.xlsx版本包含链接至相应的数字化版本或档案记录。