Eighteenth Century Translators Dictionary
Welcome to the biographical dictionary of European translators in the long Eighteenth Century. This is a crowd-sourced project based on input from the research community. Its aim is to collect and make available information about the crucial activity of translation at an important moment in the history of European culture, by bringing out of anonymity the key but generally forgotten actors. Its objective is to further understanding of a crucial moment in the history of European culture through a study of translation.
The Eighteenth Century saw both the development of national cultures and identities helped by the rise of vernacular languages as vehicles of learned discussion, and a transnational movement generally known as the ‘Enlightenment’.
The international exchanges in the European Republic of Letters were made possible by translation, which continues to be a vital tool today for the existence of both a common European culture and diverse national cultures.