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 /

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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Corporate Author: Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz)

Other Authors: Liebrenz, Boris (Editor), Rauch, Christoph (Editor)

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Islamic Manuscripts and Books 19.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Wetzstein, J. G. > (Johann Gottfried), > 1815-1905 > Congresses.
Middle East specialists > Germany > Biography > Congresses.
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > Germany > Congresses.
Manuscripts > Collectors and collecting > Middle East > Congresses.
Middle East > Historiography > Congresses.

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Call Number: DS32.7.W47 S78 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.