Sven Erdner:
Plagiat an Leibniz’ historiographischem Werk? Rekonstruktion
frühmittelalterlicher Adelsgeschichte bei G. W. Leibniz und J. G. Eckhart.
1. Teil
While it is a commonplace
even for mathematicians and philosophers that Leibniz was working since 1685 on
a Historia Domus for the dukes and electors of Hanover, that what he
then actually worked out is much less a topic in the Leibniz research.
Therefore, the old claim of Louis Davillé, that Leibniz’s
amanuensis Johann Georg Eckhart has plagiarized this Historia Domus in
his own books, which stands unrefuted since 1911, is a good starting point to
examine Leibniz’s historical work and method in detail. In this first
part I describe the environment in which dynastic history at this time took
place and the new aspects which Leibniz introduced into the historical
research, especially into medieval prosopography. Further in a first example, I
examine Davillé’s claim in a comparison between Leibniz and
Eckhart on the basis of the deductions of possible descendants of Widukind, the
famous rival of Charlemagne, in Leibniz’s Annales imperii and Eckhart’s Historia genealogica. In a second part I will continue the comparison with
two further examples of reconstruction of early medieval nobility.
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