Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies
Subtitle: Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein  in Context
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9789004390195
Description: "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 manuscripts have had until this day. Several contributions also illustrate contemporary developments that give context to his own career as a scholar and diplomat. The particular focus of this volume allows to explore the history of Oriental scholarship not purely through the lens of academic posts and publications but encourages us to discover lifes such as Wetzstein's, without academic stardom yet laying the material foundations of textual work for generations"--