Rudolf Borchardt

Japanese: ボルヒャルト - ぼるひゃると(英語表記)Rudolf Borchardt
Rudolf Borchardt

German poet, essayist, translator, and cultural historian. Born to an old family in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), he was interested in literature from an early age. He studied classical philology and archaeology at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Göttingen, while also traveling to England and Italy. He became friends with George, Hofmannsthal, and R. A. Schröder. His goal from an early stage was a "creative restoration" of culture and literature (1927 speech) that drew on the sources of the cultural heritage of Europe in Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages, and he attempted to achieve this through poetry written in strict traditional verse forms, essays that constituted fragments of major cultural historical works such as "Villa" (1907) and "Pisa" (1938), and outstanding translations of Dante's "New Life" and "Divine Comedy" (1922).

[Takatsuji Tomoyoshi]

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Japanese:

ドイツの詩人、エッセイスト、翻訳家、文化史家。東プロイセンのケーニヒスベルク(現ロシア領カリーニングラード)の古い家系の出身。早くから文学に傾倒。ベルリン、ボン、ゲッティンゲン各大学で古典文献学、考古学を学ぶ間、イギリス、イタリアへも遊学。ゲオルゲ、ホフマンスタール、R・A・シュレーダーとも親交を結ぶ。ギリシア、ローマ、中世のヨーロッパ文化遺産の源泉をくんだ文化と文学の「創造的復古」(1927演説)が早くからの目標で、厳格な伝統的詩形による詩作、『ヴィラ』(1907)や『ピサ』(1938)など文化史的主著の断片をなすエッセイ、ダンテの『新生』『神曲』の卓抜な翻訳(1922)などにより、その実現を企てた。

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