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Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben
Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700
Series: - The History of Oriental Studies, Volume: 15
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).
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
âJan Loop and Asaph Ben-Tov
2 Der Kosmopolit
Hiob Ludolf im Lichte seines Stammbuches und des Reysebüchleins
âMartin Mulsow
3 Hiob Ludolf als Amtsträger der Herzöge von Sachsen-Gotha
âHolger Kürbis
4 Hiob Ludolf und die globalen Ambitionen im Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha des 17. Jahrhunderts
âAlexander Schunka
5 The Reluctant Alchemist
Hiob Ludolf (1624â1704) as Chymical Intelligencer and the Curious Elias Ashmole (1617â1692)
âVera Keller
6 Wansleben the Archaeologist
âAlastair Hamilton
7 Wansleben Reads Harrington
Wansleben, the Harrington Manuscript, and English Republicanism
âGaby Mahlberg
8 Wanslebenâs Interests in International Politics
âThérèse-Marie Jallais
9 Ludolf und seine äthiopischen Lehrer in Europa
Der Gelehrte Abba Gorgoryos als Mitbegründer der Ãthiopistik als wissenschaftliche Ethnographie
âWolbert G.C. Smidt
10 Peter Heyling als Ãthiopienforscher
âJürgen J. Tubach
11 Hiob Ludolf and Biblical Evidences
âScott Mandelbrote
12 Quail or Locust? What the Israelites Ate in the Desert
âUlrich Groetsch
13 An Appendix to Coffee in the Bible
Hiob Ludolf, Melchior Leydecker, and the Biblical Delicacy ק×× (kali)
âBenjamin Wallura
14 Hiob Ludolf, the Qurʾan, and the History of Writing
âJan Loop
15 Ludolfâs Language Laws
Pitfalls in Describing and Comparing the Worldâs Languages
âToon Van Hal
16 Kommen die Zigeuner aus Nubien?
Hiob Ludolf zu einer Herkunftshypothese über die Sprache der Roma
âMartin Mulsow
17 Einhörner und Geranomachien
Ludolfs Wirkung auf die phantastische Zoologie seiner Zeit
âBernd Roling
18 Hiob Ludolf Observing Locusts
âAsaph Ben-Tov
19 Die Zeitrechnung der Samaritaner
Ein Austausch zwischen Hiob Ludolf, Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel und Christoph Cellarius
âMartin Mulsow
20 Hiob Ludolf als Präsident des Collegium Historicum Imperiale
âJacob Schilling
21 â⦠durch eine gewiÃe veranlaÃung übernommen, historiam hujus seculi zu elaboriren â¦â
Ludolf und die Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt
âMarkus Meumann
22 Die zeitgenössischen Portraits von Hiob Ludolf
âStefan Weninger
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
1 Scholarship and the Quest for Ethiopia in the Seventeenth Century
Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben
âJan 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
âMartin Mulsow
3 Hiob Ludolf als Amtsträger der Herzöge von Sachsen-Gotha
âHolger Kürbis
4 Hiob Ludolf und die globalen Ambitionen im Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha des 17. Jahrhunderts
âAlexander Schunka
5 The Reluctant Alchemist
Hiob Ludolf (1624â1704) as Chymical Intelligencer and the Curious Elias Ashmole (1617â1692)
âVera Keller
Part 2: Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies and Republicanism
6 Wansleben the Archaeologist
âAlastair Hamilton
7 Wansleben Reads Harrington
Wansleben, the Harrington Manuscript, and English Republicanism
âGaby Mahlberg
8 Wanslebenâs Interests in International Politics
âThérèse-Marie Jallais
Part 3: Ethiopia and Lutheran Germany
9 Ludolf und seine äthiopischen Lehrer in Europa
Der Gelehrte Abba Gorgoryos als Mitbegründer der Ãthiopistik als wissenschaftliche Ethnographie
âWolbert G.C. Smidt
10 Peter Heyling als Ãthiopienforscher
âJürgen J. Tubach
Part 4: Ludolf and Biblical Studies
11 Hiob Ludolf and Biblical Evidences
âScott Mandelbrote
12 Quail or Locust? What the Israelites Ate in the Desert
âUlrich Groetsch
13 An Appendix to Coffee in the Bible
Hiob Ludolf, Melchior Leydecker, and the Biblical Delicacy ק×× (kali)
âBenjamin Wallura
Part 5: Ludolf on the History of Languages and Writing
14 Hiob Ludolf, the Qurʾan, and the History of Writing
âJan Loop
15 Ludolfâs Language Laws
Pitfalls in Describing and Comparing the Worldâs Languages
âToon Van Hal
16 Kommen die Zigeuner aus Nubien?
Hiob Ludolf zu einer Herkunftshypothese über die Sprache der Roma
âMartin Mulsow
Part 6: Ludolf and Natural History
17 Einhörner und Geranomachien
Ludolfs Wirkung auf die phantastische Zoologie seiner Zeit
âBernd Roling
18 Hiob Ludolf Observing Locusts
âAsaph 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
âMartin Mulsow
20 Hiob Ludolf als Präsident des Collegium Historicum Imperiale
âJacob Schilling
21 â⦠durch eine gewiÃe veranlaÃung übernommen, historiam hujus seculi zu elaboriren â¦â
Ludolf und die Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt
âMarkus Meumann
Part 8: A Portrait of the Scholar
22 Die zeitgenössischen Portraits von Hiob Ludolf
âStefan Weninger
Index
All interested in early modern scholarship in the Holy Roman Empire and the history of oriental and Ethiopic studies in particular, as well as any interested in the seventeenth-century Dutchy of Saxe-Gotha.