Hello,
Im excited to share with you my English translation of Kahl's monumental monograph (Vol. 1 for now, the following soon):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16Vch24lcLTn0PCZp8pudrIzD1zhvl6lD?usp=sharing
Dear Ariel,
this is absolutely Great!
Thank you so much for this wonderful work.
Best
Anne
Thanks Ariel, great help for a big part of the world. Even though my understanding of german is OK-ish, it takes me considerable more time to understand compared to english.
What a shame Kahl's last manuscript was lost to the world. What a sad couple of years he must have had after the war.
Shameful to watch history repeating itself over and over.
Family and friends time, it is in the end all that mattered. Happy xmass.
René
Hi Ariel,
Thanks very much for sharing this with the forum! Having this resource in English is fantastic.
Best wishes,
Tim
Thank you all!
I hope our community will find it useful.
Update: The file in the folder has been updated, and all page number references are now hyperlinked so that you can jump from each species to its illustration and vice versa.
Hi Ariel,
amazing work! I guess this took you many hours, not only for translating but also keeping the layout so close to the original.
Just out of interest: Did you use some translator (DeepL, Google Translate, ..) to get a first draft?
Jürgen
Danke Jurgen.
The basic draft was based on ChatGPT, but of course, every word and term had to be checked, and there were a lot of mistakes. Kahl's often uses the same term for several meanings. Eg, "Zapfen" could mean a cone, a projection or a papillae, depending on context.
Regarding formatting, it took some time, but I've learned a lot from producing the 1st Vol. I'm in the middle of Vol.2, and it's much easier and consistent now.
:)
tremendos work!
But I would indicate on the titlepage, that this is NOT a genuine English edition of 1930 but a recent translation of 2025.
Regards
Martin
Danke Martin!
Well, its an interesting point, I havnt considered someone wil think its an authentic Edition from the cover :)
Ill update that on the cover, thanks!