Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben : Oriental Studies, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700 (The History of Oriental Studies)

Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben, pioneering orientalists, stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia in seventeenth-century Europe. This volume studies their remarkable lives and versatile work in their broader intellectual, political, and confessional contexts.