Gettysburg Address TranslationGettysburg address translation sources are few and far between. However, because the Gettysburg Address is not only one of the most revered documents in American history, but also widely recognized throughout the world, it is important to provide the text in multiple languages.
Well, luckily, a famous historian by the name of Roy P. Basler compiled twenty-nine translations of the Gettysburg Address in 1972. The compilation was then published by the Library of Congress. The reason for the Gettysburg Address translation compilation was to allow visitors to the many Lincoln tributes get at least a feel of what American democracy meant to President Lincoln. In addition to providing visitors whose native language is not English a way to understand a bit more the vision of Abraham Lincoln, these translations also give translation students and translators a good resource to study at least one way someone came to translate the Gettysburg Address in a particular language. As we all know, the length of a document doesn't necessarily correlate to how difficult it can be to translate, and the Gettysburg Address translations are a good example of that. Below you'll find links to 29 different translations of the Gettysburg Address in PDF format (as well as the original one in English.
If you're interested in the location of the actual book in the Library of Congress Catalog, search for Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Translation at
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