In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and sceni...(展开全部)

A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with nightmarish details and fantastical painterly schemes, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) secured his place as an art historical magnet. Five hundred years on from his death, his extraordinary works continue to enthrall scholars, artists...(展开全部)

A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with nightmarish details and fantastical painterly schemes, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) secured his place as an art historical magnet. Five hundred years on from his death, his extraordinary works continue to enthrall scholars, artists...(展开全部)

In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and sceni...(展开全部)

A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with nightmarish details and fantastical painterly schemes, Netherlandish visionary Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) secured his place as an art historical magnet. Five hundred years on from his death, his extraordinary works continue to enthrall scholars, artists...(展开全部)

汉斯•约阿西姆•施杜里希教授，出生于1915年，曾就学于德国的弗莱堡大学、科隆大学、科尼斯堡大学、汉堡大学、柏林大学以及瑞士的巴塞尔大学。在大学期间，学习和研究哲学、历史学、社会学和法学，先后获得哲学博士和法学博士学位。1963—1983年，施杜里希担任慕尼黑词典编纂研究所所长，之后任教于慕尼黑大学。除了这部《世界语言简史》，他还著有《世界科学史》、《世界哲学史》、《科诺斯现代天文学》等著作，并主编和出版了多种广受欢迎的百科辞典。

赫尔曼•鲍辛格（Hermann Bausinger，1926— ），德国著名的民俗学家和日耳曼语言文学研究家，1960—1992年任图宾根大学经验文化学研究所所长，是第二次世界大战以后民俗学从古文化研究转向当代日常生活研究的首倡者和重要推动者。著有《技术世界中的民间文化》、《“民间诗歌”的形式》、《民俗学：从古代研究到文化分析》等书。其中最具开创性的学术著作《技术世界中的民间文化》在国际学术界产生了广泛而持久的影响，已被译成英语、法语、意大利语、日语和韩语等多种文字。鲍辛格对民俗学的传统领域即民间叙事和方言也有深入的研究，曾担任《童话全书》的主编。1993年获得马堡大学的“格林兄弟奖”，2009年被授予“巴登－符腾堡州杰出贡献勋章”。