TY - BOOK AU - Liebrenz,Boris AU - Rauch,Christoph ED - Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein TI - Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies: Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context T2 - Islamic manuscripts and books, SN - 9789004393141 AV - DS32.7.W47 S78 2015 U1 - 956 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Wetzstein, J. G. KW - Middle East specialists KW - Germany KW - Biography KW - Congresses KW - Manuscripts KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Middle East KW - Historiography N1 - 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; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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. Contributors are Kaoukab Chebaro; François Déroche; Faustina Doufikar-Aerts; Alba Fedeli; Ludmila Hanisch †; Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf; Ingeborg Huhn; Robert Irwin; Boris Liebrenz; Astrid Meier; Samar El Mikati El Kaissi; Claudia Ott; Holger Preißler †; Christoph Rauch; Helga Rebhan; Anke Scharrahs; Jan Just Witkam UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004393141 ER -