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Johann Jakob Bodmer is regarded as the ‘father of Minnesang-research’. The article attempts a critical analysis of this claim. It traces the reception of the most important manuscript of Minnesang, the ‘Manesse’ manuscript (as Bodmer called it) since Melchior Goldast (1604) and its ‘discovery’ by Bodmer. He claims his position as the discoverer of Minnesang on three points: the patriotic, the poetic analogy and the ‘revelatory’. (...) [T]he ‘revelatory’ that Bodmer had rescued medieval literature from oblivion, had woken it up when it was sleeping like a marmot.