Ad fontes

Ad fontes (Latin ) means " to the sources " and was a motto of the humanists in the early modern period, thus making possible a return to the original texts, especially the Greek philosophers called for. Importantly, this principle was mainly in 1511 by Erasmus of Rotterdam in his programmatic treatise De ratione studii ac Legendi interpretandique auctores which states: ". Sed in primis ad fontes ipsos properandum, id est graecos et antiquos " - " Above all, to be the sources themselves divided, that is, to the Greeks and the old man at all. "

Philipp Melanchthon also called 1518 in his inaugural speech at the University of Wittenberg ( De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis - "On the reorganization of the University 's Program" ) by the students: "Learn Greek to Latin, so that when her philosophers, theologians, historians, the speakers who read poets until the matter penetrates itself, not hugging her shadow ... "

Luther was impressed by this speech, and held in his Bible translation also to this rule in that it it was based on Hebrew and Greek texts.

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