{"product_id":"hiob-ludolf-and-johann-michael-wansleben-oriental-studies-politics-and-history-between-gotha-and-africa-1650-1700-9789004548183","title":"Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHiob Ludolf (1624-1704) and Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679), the master and his erstwhile student could not be more different. Ludolf was a celebrated member of the Republic of Letters and the towering authority on Ethiopian studies. Wansleben, himself a brilliant scholar and, unlike Ludolf, a seasoned traveller in the Middle East, converted to Catholicism and eventually died impoverished and marginalized. Both stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia and spent a formative part of their career in middle sized Duchy of Saxe-Gotha which for several years played a pivotal role in Ethiopian-European encounters. This volume offers in-depth studies of the remarkable life and work of these two scholars in a broader intellectual, political, and confessional context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Acknowledgments   List of Figures      1 Scholarship and the Quest for Ethiopia in the Seventeenth Century   Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben    Jan Loop and Asaph Ben-Tov      Part 1: Hiob Ludolf: at the Gotha Court and in the Republic of Letters   2 Der Kosmopolit   Hiob Ludolf im Lichte seines Stammbuches und des Reysebüchleins    Martin Mulsow      3 Hiob Ludolf als Amtsträger der Herzöge von Sachsen-Gotha    Holger Kürbis      4 Hiob Ludolf und die globalen Ambitionen im Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha des 17. Jahrhunderts    Alexander Schunka      5 The Reluctant Alchemist  Hiob Ludolf (1624–1704) as Chymical Intelligencer and the Curious Elias Ashmole (1617–1692)    Vera Keller      Part 2: Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies and Republicanism   6 Wansleben the Archaeologist    Alastair Hamilton      7 Wansleben Reads Harrington  Wansleben, the Harrington Manuscript, and English Republicanism    Gaby Mahlberg      8 Wansleben’s Interests in International Politics    Thérèse-Marie Jallais      Part 3: Ethiopia and Lutheran Germany   9 Ludolf und seine äthiopischen Lehrer in Europa   Der Gelehrte Abba Gorgoryos als Mitbegründer der Äthiopistik als wissenschaftliche Ethnographie    Wolbert G.C. Smidt      10 Peter Heyling als Äthiopienforscher    Jürgen J. Tubach      Part 4: Ludolf and Biblical Studies   11 Hiob Ludolf and Biblical Evidences    Scott Mandelbrote      12 Quail or Locust? What the Israelites Ate in the Desert    Ulrich Groetsch      13 An Appendix to Coffee in the Bible   Hiob Ludolf, Melchior Leydecker, and the Biblical Delicacy קלי (kali)    Benjamin Wallura      Part 5: Ludolf on the History of Languages and Writing   14 Hiob Ludolf, the Qurʾan, and the History of Writing    Jan Loop      15 Ludolf’s Language Laws   Pitfalls in Describing and Comparing the World’s Languages    Toon Van Hal      16 Kommen die Zigeuner aus Nubien?   Hiob Ludolf zu einer Herkunftshypothese über die Sprache der Roma    Martin Mulsow      Part 6: Ludolf and Natural History   17 Einhörner und Geranomachien  Ludolfs Wirkung auf die phantastische Zoologie seiner Zeit    Bernd Roling      18 Hiob Ludolf Observing Locusts    Asaph Ben-Tov      Part 7: Ludolf on Chronology and the History of the Holy Roman Empire   19 Die Zeitrechnung der Samaritaner   Ein Austausch zwischen Hiob Ludolf, Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel und  Christoph Cellarius    Martin Mulsow      20 Hiob Ludolf als Präsident des Collegium Historicum Imperiale    Jacob Schilling      21 ‚… durch eine gewiße veranlaßung übernommen, historiam hujus seculi zu elaboriren …‘   Ludolf und die Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt    Markus Meumann      Part 8: A Portrait of the Scholar   22 Die zeitgenössischen Portraits von Hiob Ludolf    Stefan Weninger      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210868941143,"sku":"9789004548183","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hiob-ludolf-and-johann-michael-wansleben-oriental-studies-politics-and-history-between-gotha-and-africa-1650-1700-9789004548183","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}