Talk:Daniel Falkner
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I am very interested in your article on Daniel Falkner, and wondered if you would be kind enough to translate it for the English Wikipedia Page. An ancestor of mine is said to have come with Daniel Falkner to America, and I am very interested to read your article.
If you are busy, or unable to, and I can find someone else to translate it, would you mind if I post that translation onto the English Wikipedia Page?
Might I ask what your interest in Daniel Falkner is?
Best wishes, Thomas
- I can put a translation of the main points here on the talk page a little later. Dischdeldritsch 15:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Thomas,
i can´t help you with a proper english translation of that Falkner article, because i´m not a native speaker of the english language, so Dischdeldritsch is the right contact person.
I can only give two references concerning Falkner and the Falkner group (you might already know ???):
1. an adviser for german immigrants to Pennsylvania written by Falkner in 1702, published in Germany; it could have animated your ancestor leaving his (saxon ?) homeland; it tells about the (mostly religious) feelings of the first "german-lutheran pilgrims", about the climate and condition of the pennsylvanian land, its native-american inhabitants, the colonial administration of the English etc., etc.
A link to the original german version on the server of a german digitalization center:
http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/sub/digbib/loader?ht=VIEW&did=D78810
2. In 1905 a english translation of Falkner´s "Bericht" was made by an important Pennsylvania German historian (J. F. Sachse). Can´t say anything about its linguistic quality, but because Sachse was a native speaker of the german language his translation of Falkner' s baroque High German has probably been made quite well ... The complete bibliographic reference as follows:
- Daniel Falckner; Julius Friedrich Sachse (translator): [Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania] Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania : the book that stimulated the great German emigration to Pennsylvania in the early years of the XVIII century ; a reprint of the edition of 1702, amplified with the text of the original manuscript in the Halle archives ; Together with an introduction and English translation of the complete work / by Julius Friedrich Sachse. Philadelphia 1905.
You should find a copy of that book somewhere in an north american library...
Good luck,
(Meddling) Elliot