This article presents new evidence on the authorship and readership of the earliest printed Ottoman language materials that details the extent to which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century inhabitants of the Holy Roman Empire actively engaged in learning Ottoman. Such findings open up a new field of inquiry evaluating the Ottoman impact on the German-speaking lands reaching beyond the so-called “Turkish menace.” Presenting the variety of Ottoman language students, teachers, and materials in central Europe, as well as their connections with the oral world(s) of linguistic fieldwork in the Habsburg-Ottoman contact zone, this article argues that Ottoman language learning is an important but thus far neglected element in understanding the cultural and intellectual landscape of early modern central Europe. What may appear to be experiments with linguistic riddles on first glimpse was in fact grounded in deep enthusiasm and fascination for Ottoman language learning shared among a community of Protestant semi-scholarly aficionados.

本文提供了有关最早印刷的奥斯曼语材料的作者和读者身份的新证据，这些材料详述了16世纪和17世纪的神圣罗马帝国居民积极学习奥斯曼语的程度。这些发现开辟了一个新的调查领域，以评估奥斯曼帝国对德语地区的影响，这种影响超出了所谓的“土耳其威胁”。通过介绍中欧各种奥斯曼语言的学生，教师和材料，以及他们与哈布斯堡-奥斯曼接触区的语言实地工作的口头世界的联系，本文认为奥斯曼语言学习是一个重要但重要的迄今为止，在了解早期现代中欧的文化和知识领域时，人们忽略了这一因素。