Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben

Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700

Asaph Ben-Tov, Jan Loop, Martin Mulsow (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

604 Seiten

2023 | Approx. 520 pp., 99 fc illus.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54818-3 (ISBN)

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Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben, pioneering orientalists, stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia in seventeenth-century Europe. This volume studies their remarkable lives and versatile work in their broader intellectual, political, and confessional contexts.

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.

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).

Contents

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	The History of Oriental Studies ; 15
Zusatzinfo	99 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1128 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-54818-1 / 9004548181
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54818-3 / 9789004548183
Zustand	Neuware