KARL GOTTLOB ANTON AND JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER

KARL GOTTLOB ANTON AND JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER

Authors

• А.А. Лапунов

Keywords:

I.G. Herder, K.G. Anton, Enlightenment, Lusatia, Slavs

Abstract

The paper examines the question of the possible influence of the work of K. G. Anton (1751–1818) "The first experience of describing the origin, customs, morals, opinions and knowledge of the ancient Slavs‖ on the formation of the image of the Slavs in the treatise of I. G. Herder (1744–1803) ―Ideas for the philosophy of the history of mankind‖. It is concluded that there is a significant similarity in the ideas of Anton and Herder about the Slavs. It is shown that Herder, like Anton, largely based his ideas about the Slavs on the historical experience of the Wends, that is the Polabian Slavs (including the Lusatian Serbs), examined in detail by Anton