Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies: Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in Context

461 Pages·2019·11 MB·English

by  Boris Liebrenz, Christoph Rauch

Manuscripts,PoliticsandOrientalStudies
Islamic Manuscripts and Books
KarinScheper(LeidenUniversity)
ArnoudVrolijk(LeidenUniversity)
volume 19
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Manuscripts, Politics and
Oriental Studies
LifeandCollectionsof
JohannGottfriedWetzstein(1815–1905)
inContext
Editedby
BorisLiebrenz
ChristophRauch
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
ListofFigures x
NotesonContributors xvii
NoteonTransliterationandDates xxiii
1 Introduction 1
BorisLiebrenzandChristophRauch
Part 1
Berlin
2 JohannGottfriedWetzsteinalsForscher 13
HolgerPreißler†
3 SemiticStudiesattheUniversityofBerlinduringWetzstein’s
Lifetime 21
LudmilaHanisch†
4 GrowingCollectionsandRisingExpectations
TheEndeavourtoCatalogueManuscriptsinArabicScriptattheRoyal
LibraryinBerlin 33
ChristophRauch
Part 2
TheWetzsteinCollections
5 TheWetzsteinCollectionatTübingenUniversityLibrary
ItsHistory,ContentandReceptioninOrientalStudies 65
MichaelaHoffmann-Ruf
6 TheQuranicCollectionsAcquiredbyWetzstein 92
FrançoisDéroche
7 JohannGottfriedWetzstein’sManuscriptsContainingArabicPopular
Stories 116
JanJustWitkam
vi contents
8 TheConsulandtheKing
WetzsteinandAlexander 140
FaustinaDoufikar-Aerts
9 WetzsteininWonderland
ArabianEpicManuscriptsintheWetzsteinCollections 162
ClaudiaOtt
10 ArabicManuscriptsandBooksfromtheBequestofWetzstein 174
BorisLiebrenzandChristophRauch
Part 3
CollectingOrientalManuscripts
11 CollectingIslamicManuscriptsattheMunichCourtLibraryinthe
NineteenthCentury
AnAcquisitionHistory 197
HelgaRebhan
12 ManuscriptAcquisitionsandtheirLaterMovements
AFurtherNoteabouttheCaseoftheLewisQuranicManuscript 228
AlbaFedeli
13 ManuscriptOwnershipandReadershipattheAmericanUniversityof
BeirutattheTurnoftheTwentiethCentury 248
KaoukabChebaroandSamarElMikatiElKaissi
Part 4
Damascus
14 LookingatManintheStateofNature
JohannGottfriedWetzsteinontheBedouinoftheSyrianSteppe 293
AstridMeier
15 FromLeipzigtoDamascus
WetzsteinasaBrokerofArabicPrintsinSyria 323
BorisLiebrenz
contents vii
16 ErgänzungenzudenhinterlassenenPapierenJohannGottfried
Wetzsteins 346
IngeborgHuhn
17 LivinginMid-Nineteenth-CenturyDamascus
InsightsintotheUrbanResidencesofForeignersandLocals 371
AnkeScharrahs
18 ArabistandConsulinDamascus
SirRichardBurtonandtheProblematicNatureofHisTranslationof The
ThousandandOneNights 420
RobertIrwin
Index 433

Acknowledgements
Wewishtothankallwhopresentedtheirfascinatingpapersduringthecon-
ferencein2015andallwhopreparedthemintheintensiveeditingprocessfor
thispublication.WewouldliketothankBarbaraSchneider-Kempfandherstaff
from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin for all their efforts to make this exciting
conference happen. Its organization was a cooperation between the Staats-
bibliothekandtheOrientalInstituteofLeipzigUniversityandwearegrateful
toVerenaKlemm(LeipzigUniversity)forherinvaluablesupport.Theconfer-
encewasmadepossiblebythegeneroussupportoftheFritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
and the Verein der Freunde der Staatsbibliothek. Our thanks go also to the
StiftungDr.JohannGottfriedWetzsteinforprovidingfundingforthecopyedit-
ing.ThanksareduetoEdwardStreetwhothoroughlycopyeditedthewhole
volume.We finally would like to extend our sincere appreciation to Arnoud
VrolijkandKarinScheperforhavingacceptedthevolumeintheseries“Islamic
ManuscriptsandBooks”,toMauritsvandenBoogertandFrancadeKortfrom
Brillfortheirimmensesupport,andtoPieterteVeldeforseeingthevolume
throughthepress.
Figures
1.1 ErnestineundJohannGottfriedWetzsteinimJahrihrerEheschließung1853,
DaguerreotypieausdemPrivatbesitzvonS.Knez,Monheim(Bayern) 2
1.2 KonsulDr.Joh.Gottfr.WetzsteinbesuchtimJahre1855denScheicheinesihm
befreundetenBeduinen-StammesindenRuinenvonBaalbeck,paintingby
BernhardFiedler,undated,EthnologischesMuseum,StaatlicheMuseenzu
Berlin–PK,IBDlg7 4
1.3 PortraitvonWetzstein,Foto:E.Bieber,Berlin-Steglitz,1884,Staatsbibliothek
zuBerlin–PK,NachlassWetzsteinII,Kasten5 8
4.1 PortraitofEmilRödiger,undated,UBderHumboldt-UniversitätBerlin,
Portraitsammlung 41
4.2 PortraitofWilhelmSchott,undated 42
4.3 PortraitofWilhelmPertsch,undatedplasterrelief,Forschungsbibliothek
Gotha 44
4.4 PortraitofRichardGosche,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK,
Handschriftenabteilung,Portraitsammlung 47
4.5 BoxwithRichardGosche’scataloguerecords,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–
PK,Handschriftenabteilung,Ms.Cat.477a,Photo:SiegfriedSchmitt 49
4.6 PortraitofWilhelmAhlwardt,reproductionofalostpainting,dateandartist
unknown,UniversitätsarchivGreifswald,Fotosammlung 50
4.7 LetterofAhlwardttoAugustWilmannsfrom8September1899:“Endlich
auchdaszumAbschlußgebrachtundnuneinStrichgemachtunterdie
Arbeitvon40Jahren!”,StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK,
Handschriftenabteilung,ActaIIIA4d,p.263 54
4.8 JohannGottfriedWetzstein,Bruchstückeineswissenschaftl.Katalogs,
StaatsbibliothekzuBerlin–PK,Orientabteilung,Or.HBD9 59
5.1 PhilippWolff,ArabischerDragoman,1867,Titlepage 69
5.2 PortraitofChristianSeybold,1894,UBderUniversitätTübingen,
LXV483 75
5.3 PortraitofMaxWeisweiler,undated,UBderUniversitätBonn,
Portraitsammlung 77
5.4 Diagramillustratingthecontentofthecollection(basedonWeisweiler,
Verzeichnis,pp.227–228) 78
5.5 Kitābal-nuqaṭwa-l-dawāʾir,c.17thcentury,UBderUniversitätTübingen,
MaVI133,f.54a 82
5.6 Qiṣṣatal-Sūlwa-l-Šumūl,14thcentury,UBderUniversitätTübingen,
MaVI33,f.1a 83
5.7 ḤikāyatʿUmaral-Nuʿmānwa-waladayhiŠarkānwa-Ḍauʾal-Makān,c.1640,
UBderUniversitätTübingen,MaVI32,f.2b 85