The influence of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh in Germany
Subject Areas : شعرIsmael Azar 1 , Maryam Barzegar 2
1 - Associate Professor, Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad Unversity, Science & Research Branch.
2 - Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad Unversity, Science & Research Branch.
Keywords: آلمان, Germany, ترجمه, translation, شاهنامه, Shahnameh, مستشرقان, orientalist,
Abstract :
The German people became familiar with the Persian literature since seventeenth century. The first political – economic group were dispatched to Iran from Germany (Holstein) in late sixteenth century. There was a translator in this group called Adam Olearius who does not talk about Ferdowsi in his Itinerary. A school called “East Year” (Al Sena Al Sharqiya) in France in the same century. Four languages were taught in this school – Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Persian. The ones who were interested in learning Persian have learnt it in this school. Famous authors such as Countess von Hahn-Hahn , Christian Johann Heinrich Heine and … created new works under Shahnameh influence. German people became familiar with Iran and Shahnameh by these works.
