Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben

Oriental Studies, Politics, and History Between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54818-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 15, 588 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1011 g

Reihe: The History of Oriental Studies

Hiob 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ben-Tov, Asaph

Loop, Jan

Mulsow, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Über Autor(innen)

Asaph Ben-Tov, PhD (2007) Habil. (2019), studies the Classical tradition and the history of oriental studies in early modern Europe, especially in Germany. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and Johann Ernst Gerhard (2021).

Jan Loop is Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Cultures at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of The Learning and Teaching of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017).


Martin Mulsow is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Erfurt and director of the Gotha Research Centre. He is the author of Enlightenment Underground (2015), Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History (2022) and The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment (2023).