The philologist Friedrich Seiler examines in his four-volume work the words borrowed from foreign languages and translated into German. This approach provides insights into the historical development of the German language and simultaneously reveals the various cultural influences that have shaped the German-speaking world. The third volume deals with loanwords from the modern era. Seiler explores Latin during the age of Humanism and the Reformation, as well as the influence of French on various aspects of life, such as literature and art, domestic and economic life, and much more. This is an unchanged reprint of the long out-of-print original edition from 1910.