Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: D820000-002
Heinrich Meidingers Briefe aus Irland
Author: Johann Heinrich Meidinger
Background details and bibliographic information
File Description
Electronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber
Funded by The School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text:
7240 words
Publication
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (2016) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: D820000-002
Availability
The text is in the public domain.
Notes
Johann Heinrich Meidinger (17921867) was a merchant, geographer and travel writer from Frankfurt am Main. After training as a merchant in Frankfurt, Paris and London he travelled through France, England Scotland and Ireland, and studied geography and statistics privately, also publishing over a dozen books.
Sources
Travel accounts and secondary literature- G. Waterhouse, 'Goethe, Giesecke, and Dublin', PRIA 41 (1933) C, 210218.
- Michael Quane, 'The Feinaiglian Institution, Dublin', Dublin Historical Record 19:2 (March 1964) 3044.
- Andreas Oehlke: Irland in deutschen Reisebeschreibungen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, (Frankfurt/Main: Lang 1992.)
- Eda Sagarra, Die "grüne Insel" in der deutschen Reiseliteratur Deutsche Irlandreisende von Karl Gottlob Küttner bis Heinrich Böll", in: Jäger, Hans-Wolf (Hg.): Europäisches Reisen im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Neue Bremer Beiträge, (Heidelberg: Winter, 1992).
- Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, 'Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke (17611833) and Greenland: A recently discovered mineral collection in Trinity College, Dublin',
Irish Journal of Earth Sciences (1996) 161168.
- C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source material for Irish historians (Dublin 2009).
- Eoin Bourke, Poor Green Erin (Frankfurt am Main 2011) [With extract in English translation].
The edition used in the digital edition- Briefe von einer Reise durch England, Schottland und Irland im Frühjahr und Sommer 1820. Heinrich Meidinger First edition [pages 239] CottaStuttgart & Tübingen (1821)
Encoding
Project Description
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
Sampling Declaration
The present text covers pp 166194 of the volume.
Editorial Declaration
Correction
Text proofread twice at CELT.
Normalization
The electronic text represents the edited text. The 19th-century German spelling has been left to stand. Some abbreviations by the auhtor have been expanded silently.
Quotation
Direct speech is not tagged.
Hyphenation
Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break or line-break, this break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.
Segmentation
div0=the whole text; div1=the letter; page-breaks are marked pb n=""/.
Standard Values
Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd.
Interpretation
Some personal names, place-names and organisation names are tagged. Words and phrases from other languages are tagged.
Canonical References
This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the Letter.
Profile Description
Created: By Johann Heinrich Meidinger (17921867)
(1820)
Use of language
Language: [DE] The text is in German.
Language: [EN] Some words and phrases are in English.
Language: [IT] One word is in Italian.
Language: [LA] One term is in Latin.
Revision History
- (2016-08-04)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- File proofed (2), TEI header and bibliographic details completed; SGML and HTML files created.
- (2016-07-27)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- File proofed and structurally encoded; TEI header created; XML file parsed and validated.
- (2016-07-26)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Text captured by keyboarding.