Athanasius Kircher als Exeget ägyptischer Hieroglyphen und chinesischer Schriftzeichen
Christologische Schrifthalluzinationen
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In many of his lavishly illustrated books, the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher deals with foreign writing systems such as hieroglyphs and ideograms. He claimed to have deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and in the supposed iconicity of Chinese written characters he wanted to track down an original resemblance to the objects. In fact, his assumptions were based on serious misunderstandings that were typical of his time. This article explores Kircherâs âchristological hallucinationsâ as a form of the 17th centuryâs âsemiotic ideologyâ and shows how his views have been adapted until the 18th and 19th century.
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Athanasius Kircher als Exeget ägyptischer Hieroglyphen und chinesischer Schriftzeichen
Christologische Schrifthalluzinationen
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In many of his lavishly illustrated books, the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher deals with foreign writing systems such as hieroglyphs and ideograms. He claimed to have deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and in the supposed iconicity of Chinese written characters he wanted to track down an original resemblance to the objects. In fact, his assumptions were based on serious misunderstandings that were typical of his time. This article explores Kircherâs âchristological hallucinationsâ as a form of the 17th centuryâs âsemiotic ideologyâ and shows how his views have been adapted until the 18th and 19th century.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 524 | 100 | 10 |
| Full Text Views | 295 | 6 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 94 | 11 | 0 |
