Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies : : Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context /

Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies : : Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context / / edited by Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch.

Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies commemorates the life and works of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) as a scholar, manuscript collector, and consul in Berlin and Damascus. Beyond research into Wetzstein's own time, special attention is given to the impact his efforts to acquire...

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Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
TeilnehmendeR:
Liebrenz, Boris,
Rauch, Christoph,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
German
Series:Islamic Manuscripts and Books 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource (461 pages).
Notes:Collects papers originally presented at the symposium Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905): Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies, presented by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in cooperation with Orientalisches Institut der Unversität Leipzig, Feb. 19-21, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Note on Transliteration and Dates
  • Introduction / Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch
  • Berlin
  • Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher / Holger Preißler †
  • Semitic Studies at the University of Berlin during Wetzstein’s Lifetime / Ludmila Hanisch †
  • Growing Collections and Rising Expectations / Christoph Rauch
  • The Wetzstein Collections
  • The Wetzstein Collection at Tübingen University Library / Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf
  • The Quranic Collections Acquired by Wetzstein / François Déroche
  • Johann Gottfried Wetzstein’s Manuscripts Containing Arabic Popular Stories / Jan Just Witkam
  • The Consul and the King / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
  • Wetzstein in Wonderland / Claudia Ott
  • Arabic Manuscripts and Books from the Bequest of Wetzstein / Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch
  • Collecting Oriental Manuscripts
  • Collecting Islamic Manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the Nineteenth Century / Helga Rebhan
  • Manuscript Acquisitions and Their Later Movements / Alba Fedeli
  • Manuscript Ownership and Readership at the American University of Beirut at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Kaoukab Chebaro and Samar El Mikati El Kaissi
  • Damascus
  • Looking at Man in the State of Nature / Astrid Meier
  • From Leipzig to Damascus / Boris Liebrenz
  • Ergänzungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins / Ingeborg Huhn
  • Living in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Damascus / Anke Scharrahs
  • Arabist and Consul in Damascus / Robert Irwin
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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