Translation as Dispute

The presentation takes us on a tour of the HAAB collections, through the centuries and the history of translation.

With Martin Luther’s new translations, the Bible was reinvented as a new book. It became a weapon in religious disputes, spawned competition and generated new points of view. This is substantiated by the 16^th-century illustrations contained in Weimar’s Bible Collection. In the 17^th and 18^th century, books assumed a more mobile format as exemplified by a historical travel library anno 1800, which you can discover for yourself in the open-access shelves. The presentation at the Study Centre will be supplemented by volumes from the Herder Church library on display at the Historic Library (HAAB) and in public tours of the “Treasures of the Weimar Bible Collection”.