Some
years ago I published a paper about the results of the
Hemsterhuis-research during the last decades: ‘Frans Hemsterhuis,
een onderzoeksbericht 1990-2010’, in: De achttiende eeuw, 42
(2010), p. 141-156. My final remark was a wish: “The major gap
concerns the English language. Hemsterhuis's texts […] are fully
available to us in French, German, Italian and Dutch, and some texts
in Spanish and Portuguese too. But there is hardly anything
translated into English.”
An English translation of
all the works of Hemsterhuis is urgently needed. To start with, I
have made a translation of the dialogue Sophyle. But my English is
poor and this draft should be checked or improved by idealiter a
native speaker. Can someone help me?
