An unknown German manuscript on Ethiopia in the Goethe Nachlass in Weimar: Niebuhr on his research expedition and his criticism of James Bruce

Description

The lecture describes the little known research on Ethiopia done by Carsten Niebuhr, member of the Royal danish Expedition to Arabia in 1761-67. The results of Niebuhr's studies are represented in a little known article in a German scholarly journal, in an appendix to volume 3 of Niebuhr's Reisebeschreibung, published 22 years after his death, and in a previously unpublished manuscript found in the Goethe archive in Weimar. The texts are compared with the well known descriptions of Ethiopia by the almost contemporary and well known Scottish traveller James Bruce.

Period	24 Nov 2014
Event title	Symposium: Cultural Research from Germanophone Countries in Northeastern Africa: Stories and History
Event type	Conference
Location	Addis Abeba, EthiopiaShow on map