Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies, Politics, and History Between Gotha and Africa, 1650-1700

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.