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New blog post of the Gotha Research Library: From an Inspiring Turning Point to a Life’s Work: Ferdinand Wüstenfeld’s Oriental Studies in Gotha

In the late autumn of 1832, a young scholar from Göttingen embarked on a journey to Gotha. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (1808–1899), who had recently completed his habilitation and was still at the beginning of his academic career, set out to the renowned ducal library in search of Arabic manuscripts, which until then had been almost unknown in Europe. Little did he know that this trip would change his life forever. It laid the foundations for his career as one of the most important German orientalists of the 19th century.

aus: Ders.: Geschichte der Türken mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des vermeintlichen Anrechts derselben auf den Besitz von Griechenland. Leipzig 1899.
Ferdinand Wüstenfeld

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